Extreme Old Age Quotes

#1. The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

Vita Sackville-West

#2. The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of disease, but with medical intervention probably live almost as long, suffering from suboptimum health all the way through. It's our choice.

Steve Solomon

#3. The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Jean Paul

#4. But even in extreme old age, especially in old age, one shouldn't forget one's dick.

Edward Field

#5. Am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -

Robert Harris

#7. To die from 'a draining away of one's strength caused by extreme old age' was in Montaigne's day a 'rare, singular and extraordinary death.' Nowadays we assume it as our right.

Julian Barnes

#8. He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

Aldous Huxley

#10. Well, who wants to die in bed?" "You did, you always said. Of extreme old age, in bed, with somebody's wife." "Mine, by preference," Cazaril

Lois McMaster Bujold

#11. Tolerance means weakness," Eicke wrote in the introduction to his rules. "In the light of this conception, punishment will be mercilessly handed out whenever the interests of the fatherland warrant it.

Erik Larson

#12. What the heck kind of name was Sir?

Cherise Sinclair

#13. People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.

Sonny Bono

#14. You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.

Eddie Griffin

#15. You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire. Also, when you get made fun of-when people point out your weaknesses, it's an opportunity for you to rise above.

Zac Efron

#16. As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca The Younger

#17. Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

Norm MacDonald

#18. Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

Kenneth Patchen

#19. Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Stanton

#20. If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

Robert Breault

#21. I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties ...

Marshall McLuhan

#22. Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny
something greater than you could've imagined.

C.S. Lewis

#23. After a song or three or seven, James pull me closer.

Kiersten White

#24. It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Isabella Rossellini

#25. Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.

W.G. Sebald

#26. I should think less of myself if no one disliked me.

Kate Morton