Approaching death Quote by William Hazlitt

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

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

— William Allen White

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

— Jonathan Pryce

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and…

— Marya Mannes

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age…

— P. D. James

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

— Isak Dinesen

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.

— Elijah Wood

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

— Bertolt Brecht

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

— Jean de la Bruyere

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

— Helen Van Slyke

“The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of…

— Lorenzo Carcaterra