Getting old is not for sissies.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
If you're not getting older, you're dead.
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?
Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.
I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.
Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.
Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
Old age is a shipwreck.
The speed and timing go with age.
I don't know how to deal with being 80.
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.
Old age is second childhood.
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.
I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.
Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.
Often it is fatal to live too long.
Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.
Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.
