Paddy Chayefsky Quotes

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

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

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

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

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

I thought, 'If I make 35, it'll be okay,' and then at 40, I got scared, and now that I'm 81, I'm scared to death.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

I don't want to die an old lady.

I hope I die before I get old.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.