David Rakoff Quotes

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

Whether I'm 70 or 30 in the world, it really doesn't matter.

I will be happy if I am 60 because I was not supposed to be 60.

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.

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); - and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.

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

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

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

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

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.