Kathleen Flinn Quotes

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

My audience is going to die before I do.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

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

My father passed away at, like, 87.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

I would just like to be remembered.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

I think you die the way you live.

If I die soon, don't ever say I died too young.

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.