Suzanne Somers Quotes

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

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.

As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

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

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

We all want to look younger, become stronger and healthier and live longer.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

You get old, you slow down.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

Exercise is the fountain of youth, I believe.

I have no desire to be 60 years old and standing on the side of the pitch.

Longevity is a big deal.

I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.