Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes

There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

I'm going to live to be 110 years old!

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

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.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.