Lauren DeStefano Quotes

This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

You can't get old without living.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Aging is a synonym for living.

It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.