Baltasar Gracian Quotes

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

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.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

I never thought I would live this long.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

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

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

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Often it is fatal to live too long.

All would live long, but none would be old.

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.

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

We're not getting any younger.

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

My audience is going to die before I do.