Elmer Davis Quotes

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

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.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

You get old, you slow down.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

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

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

The neck starts to go at 43, and that's that.

When I was in my 20s, and even though I was studying medicine, I didn't ever really think that my body would fail. Now I'm in my 40s, I have to face a different reality - I, like everyone else, am slowly falling apart.

I feel like I'm 85 inside.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

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

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.