William Gibson Quotes

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

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

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.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

My audience is going to die before I do.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

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.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.

This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

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.

There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.