Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

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

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

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

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

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

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

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

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.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

The years that remain are clearly limited. When you're 80, you attend a lot more funerals. A lot more people are having a hard time and are ill.

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

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

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.

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

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

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.

Old age is the verdict of life.

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.