Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

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

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.

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

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

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.

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

How young can you die of old age?

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

All would live long, but none would be old.

If I could only live another century!

All diseases run into one, old age.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.