Valerie Harper Quotes

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

I don't want to die an old lady.

I probably am a dead man already.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

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

I don't want to hear about my death.

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!