Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

At my age flowers scare me.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

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

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

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

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

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

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

I don't want to die an old lady.

I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.