Teri Garr Quotes

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.

I've got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

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

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.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

Retiring is getting ready to die.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

People ask me a lot like, "Hey, so when are you done with your tour?" Like when I die. That's when I'm done with my tour.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

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

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

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.