Don Rickles Quotes

My audience is going to die before I do.

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

We are all terminal.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

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

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

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

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

Life is the longest death in California.

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.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

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.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.