Seneca the Younger Quotes

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

We're not getting any younger.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.