Robert Lansing Quotes

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

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.

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

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't want to die an old lady.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

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.

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

I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

'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.

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

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

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

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.

My audience is going to die before I do.