Anne Bradstreet Quotes

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my life.

I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

I like to think that I'm not old yet.