Longevity Quotes

Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.

I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

The first wealth is health.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

It is far better to live like a tiger for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.

My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

The negro achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and also greatest longevity, in a state of slavery

Fighters can fight into their 50s. Why not?

Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.

What makes people want to live forever? I don't think it's limited to our materialistic society of today. Even back to Christian times, they were writing about eternal life after death. So even in death there was a discussion of eternal life. I think this is a universal human desire. It's a horrible thought that this conscious being of ours - with our beautiful bodies - is one day going to decay and die. I don't think it so much has to do with the fear of meeting God, as it is just the thought that this all ends.

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.