David Brin Quotes

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

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

My audience is going to die before I do.

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

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.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

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.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.