Bill Cosby Quotes

We're not getting any younger.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.

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

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

You get old, you slow down.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and we're mortal. I envy dogs. They don't know they're getting old! And they don't know it's towards the end. I mean, they never think, 'I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don't get 19, I'm a wreck.'

Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

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.