Hans Selye Quotes

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

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

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

All diseases run into one, old age.

How young can you die of old age?

I thought that tackling aging and the mechanisms that promote life would be worth figuring out. I wanted to learn why it is that some people are healthier than others and why some people live to 110 and others only to 60 or 70.

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

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.

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

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

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

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

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.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.