Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

In a dream you are never eighty.

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

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

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

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.

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

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

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

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

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

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.

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It’d be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

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

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

Only the dead stay seventeen forever.