Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

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

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

I'm twice as old, but I feel good.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

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.

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

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

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.