Sebastian Lelio Quotes

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

I always thought I was going to die before I was 60.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

I don't wake up saying, 'Oh, I'm going to die.' It's a waste of time. It really is.

We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.

I worry about dying all the time so I worry about my health. I don't want to die because I absolutely love my life.

Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave off age just a little while longer.

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

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

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

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.