S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

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

You can't put off being young until you retire.

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

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

All diseases run into one, old age.

We're not getting any younger.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

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

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

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.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.