Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave - but there's no need to be in the passing lane.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

All diseases run into one, old age.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

My audience is going to die before I do.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

Our business is with life, not death.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Mortality defines the human condition.