Joanna Lumley Quotes

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

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.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

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.

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

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

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

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.

I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.

You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

You think about it sometimes. I try not to think about it too much. You think about you can't play forever.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

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.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

We're not getting any younger.