George Santayana Quotes

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Our business is with life, not death.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

The main thing is not to be dead.

I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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

These actions will not make people as happy as happy hours do, but they will help keep them alive.

Becoming eighty is a matter of life or death. I chose life. It is a much better position to be in, and it's easier on your back.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

I don't intend to die.

Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.