James Lee Burke Quotes

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Getting older is hard.

It sucks getting old.

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

You get old, you slow down.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

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.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

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

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

I just hate getting old - it's slowing me down.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.