Harold Russell Quotes

I never thought I would live this long.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

I never expected to live this long.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

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

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.

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

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.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

My audience is going to die before I do.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

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

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

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.

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

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

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.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.