Dying Old Quotes: top 54 famous quotes about Dying Old

Dying Old Quotes & Sayings

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You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that. — Robert Lansing

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old. — Erica Jong

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire. — David Copperfield

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing! — Thomas Hood

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep. — Miguel De Cervantes

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop. — Christopher Plummer

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.' — Tom Preston-Werner

Out past the weekly glimpsed windows, out past the street, lived the world, which had, Old Mrs. Karafilis knew, been dying for years. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying. — Raven Moore

There was real beauty to the old idea of living and dying where you were born. — Annie Dillard

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get. — Jessica Brown Findlay

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. — Rupert Brooke

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph — Munia Khan

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

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

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. — Oscar Wilde

You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose. — Grant Cardone

War is young men dying and old men talking — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived. — Willa Cather

Like the death of a crone in one twin bed as a child is born in the other. Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying. — Sharon Olds

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. — Raymond Chandler

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. — Antonio Gramsci

The old vacuum cleaner keeps dying on her
over and over
until at last the cleaning woman
scares it by yelling:
"Motherfucker! — Lydia Davis

I taught myself to name my name,
To bark back, loosen love and crying;
To ease my woman so she came,
To ease an old man who was dying. — W. D. Snodgrass

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? — Stephen King

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move. — Erica Jong

On history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendour never to be seen again. — W. Macqueen-Pope

Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded. — Mavis Gallant

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun — John Mellencamp

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying. — Robert Ludlum

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear. — Norman Reedus

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in. — Dan Groat

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness. — Gwyneth Paltrow

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think. — Will Leitch

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia. — Tony Benn

Growing old with the woman I love would be my first choice, but dying reconciled with her isn't a bad second. — Brent Weeks

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ... — Edith Piaf

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born — Antonio Gramsci

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young. — Regina Brett

And I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again. — Philip Roth

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying. — Gautama Buddha

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters — Antonio Gramsci

It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust. — Livia Blackburne

A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old. — Thomas Kibble Hervey

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born. — Andy Goldsworthy

When the years are dying in the arms of your life,
the earth is in pain moving around the sun. — Munia Khan

The old echoes are long in dying. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath. — Mark Doty

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life. — Louise Hay

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either. — Stella Young

When the forms of an old culture are dying,
the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure. — Rudolf Bahro