Howard Stern Quotes

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

I don't want to die an old lady.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

I always thought I was going to die before I was 60.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

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.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.