Charles Churchill Quotes

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

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.

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

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.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

Old age is the verdict of life.

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

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

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

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

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