Top 22 Quotes About Getting Old And Dying
#1. ...this would be my greatest fear: imagination giving up before the body does. I guess I'm not alone in this. Humans are a strange breed in the way our fear of getting old seems to be even greater than our fear of dying.
Fredrik Backman
#2. I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.
Howard Schultz
#3. Reason is the steering wheel. Emotion is the gas pedal.
Anonymous
#4. Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.
Jerry Hall
#5. Fathers remain opaque to their sons, he thought, largely because the sons find it so hard to believe that there's anything in the father worth seeing. Until he's dead, and it's too late. Mercifully, doctors are also opaque to their patients.
Pat Barker
#6. The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
Mary Oliver
#7. I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question
George W. Bush
#9. And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#10. Are you always this moody? If so, I think we need some sort of call . . . so I know when you're not approachable." He stares at me, lip curled in disgust. "Call?" "You know, like a bird call. Ka-kaw! Ka-kaw!" He blinks. "Are you fuckin' nuts?
Bella Jewel
#11. You make me crazy and furious and out of my mind with need, but in the end, you make me so fucking happy. I can't ever remember feeling this way. And no one is going to tell me it's wrong. No one.
Ella Frank
#12. Humans are a strange breed in the way our fear of getting old seems to be even greater than our fear of dying. This
Fredrik Backman
#13. Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
M. Night Shyamalan
#16. As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
Maggie Siff
#17. How's Alison getting on?'
Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.
Tana French
#18. Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.
Louise Hay
#19. What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?
Drake
#20. Evil is never in a rush. It creeps up slowly. It doesn't hide, but confronts you in broad daylight. It gives decades of warnings, even centuries at times. Time is never the problem when you battle Evil. The problem is the will to fight it.
Amish Tripathi
#21. The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Edward Young
#22. This was their way; a lot was said by saying nothing. She
Justin Cronin
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