Dick Van Dyke Quotes

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

To retire is to begin to die.

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.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

No one gets out of here alive.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

We all die, just a question of when.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

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

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Everyone is going to die.

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

Death is a very important part of life.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

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

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.