Larry Dixon Quotes

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

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.

It's scary when you look at how kids age, because you think, 'Am I aging at that rate, too?'

I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that.

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.

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

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.'

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

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

In a dream you are never eighty.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

I feel old.

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 shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.