Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

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 used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

My audience is going to die before I do.

At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.

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

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I don't want to die an old lady.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

How young can you die of old age?

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

I want to plant a few more seeds here and there before they plant me

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.