Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.
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 might be overcome.
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.
You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.
I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
No one will die if they don't know how old I am.