Chris Crutcher Quotes

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

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

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

I don't want to die an old lady.