Adulthood Quote by Will Self

The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

— Hortense Calisher

Rolexes, chauffeurs, and low fades. I keep thinking, how young can you die from old age?

— Drake

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

— Hans Selye

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

— Christopher Lasch

“So. Yes. We're all dying. We're all crumbling into the void, one cell at a time. We are disintegrating like sugar cubes in champagne.…

— Caitlin Moran

Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs…

— John Mortimer

Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

— Martha Ostenso

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

— Dalai Lama