Age Quote by Erica Jong

There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have…

— Sebastian Lelio

“Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

— Jimmy Dean

“Getting older means going to more funerals than weddings. He fears the loss of his own vigor.”

— T.K. Lamb

“It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young women. It’s because from the time they…

— Haruki Murakami

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older…

— Gus Van Sant

“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.”

— Agatha Christie

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

— Aaron Eckhart

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

— Anonymous

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

— Mark Twain

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

— Marianne Williamson