Cecelia Ahern Quotes

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.