Saul Bellow Quotes

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

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

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

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

I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.

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

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

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

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.