David Bailey Quotes

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I never expected to live this long.

I never thought I would live this long.

I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

It never occurred to me that I would live this long. I just went on and on, and I’ve loved it

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

The worthless usually live long.