William Shakespeare Quotes

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

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.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.