Lydia M. Child Quotes

I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Nobody stays young forever.

I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

Old age is the verdict of life.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

You get old, you slow down.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.