Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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

Not even old age knows how to love death.

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

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

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

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Often it is fatal to live too long.

All would live long, but none would be old.

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.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

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

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

At my age flowers scare me.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.