Lillian Gordy Carter Quotes

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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

Time moves on for everyone.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

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

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

Old age is the verdict of life.

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

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

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

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!