Outliving Quotes

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

I've outlived all my diet doctors.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

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

Longevity trumps everything.

They live too long who happiness outlive.

I outlived the bastards.

I never thought I would live this long.

If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

I hope to outlive my enemies.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

George Burns – the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.