Aubrey de Grey Quotes

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids.

All diseases run into one, old age.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

You get old, you slow down.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

My grandmother is 82, and some days she doesn't even put her teeth in.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

The ultimate goal is to have a pill that can prevent or reverse all diseases of aging. The major diseases that I'd like to tackle are heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and cancer. I want to reduce those diseases by 10 percent.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.