Anne Sexton Quotes

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

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

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

I've never really understood the desire to be immortal myself. The idea of both wanting to live forever in some form and wanting to stay young forever just sounds exhausting. It's one of those desires that people think they want but when you actually stop to think about what it actually means, it's really awful. One of the reasons that life is bearable is because it's going to end soon. One of the main concerns of fiction is how do we make a life of 85 years or so meaningful.

All would live long, but none would be old.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

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

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

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

There's no one who has been living for centuries.

Youth has no age.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Who wants to live forever?