Lisa Lutz Quotes

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

It's like, God, I'm in my 80s. Nobody, when I die, is going to say, 'How young?' They're going to say she had a great ride.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.