Cynthia Kenyon Quotes

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

Words have longer lives than people.

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

I would like to live to 120, because conceptually, people can survive to 120. Every 20 years, it changes. So maybe, in the next 20 years people can go to space. I don’t know what the next revolution will be. I want to watch.

Dogs live longer than rappers.

What do you think, I was born at 60?

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Life is the longest death in California.