A. C. Benson Quotes

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

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.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

It sucks getting old.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

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 guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

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.

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.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

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

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

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

Nobody stays young forever.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

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.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

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

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.