Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

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

There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

The arctic loneliness of age.

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

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.

You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding 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.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

Life is scarier than death.