Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

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 don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

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.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

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

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

Why is youth so short and age so long?

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Often it is fatal to live too long.

All would live long, but none would be old.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

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.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

We're not getting any younger.

My audience is going to die before I do.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

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

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.