Robin Williams Quotes

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

I watch a lot of TV, I drink a lot of coffee, but you know what's really addictive? Heroin.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

Should women be on any pills besides birth control? We should just give them all sugar pills for everything, they're so suggestible.

as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists, periodontists, gynecologists and psychiatrists, from all of whom we want a second opinion. We want a second opinion that says, don't worry, you are going to live forever.

MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

I told my doctor I wonna stop aging, he gave me a gun!

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

I think I can get five, six, seven more years out of this arm and these legs.

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

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.