Final Years Quotes

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

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

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

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

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.

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

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

My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.

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.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.

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 grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

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

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.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

My audience is going to die before I do.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

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

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

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

When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.