Charlie Kaufman Quotes

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

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

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

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.

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.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!