Devon Bostick Quotes

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

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.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

We're not getting any younger.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

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.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

I never thought I would live this long.

I just don't have time to get old!

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

I will be happy if I am 60 because I was not supposed to be 60.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

All would live long, but none would be old.

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.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.