Cornelia Parker Quotes

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

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

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

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.

I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

At 87, I have to keep moving because, if I sit down, you never know what might happen.

I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.

Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.

I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

Living too long exacts a painful price.

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.