Sirio Maccioni Quotes

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

While there's life, there's fear.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

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

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

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.

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

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.

Oh, god,” I said. “Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?” --Sadie to Zia

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

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

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

At my age flowers scare me.