Francis Bacon Quotes

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

All would live long, but none would be old.

In a dream you are never eighty.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

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.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

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.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

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

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

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.

We are always the same age inside.

I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.