Quotes About Longevity

Formal city parks have a longevity to them that can exceed that of castles or cemeteries or forts.

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.

The food-crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.270

Things that can't go on forever can go on much longer than you think.

we tend to think that "we approach death by one year for every year we age, but during the twentieth century, the average person approached death by just seven months for every year they aged.

Most hunter-gatherer tribes have plenty of people in their seventies and even some in their eighties. Though a Hadza woman's life expectancy at birth is 32.5 years, if she makes it to 45 she can expect to live another 21 years.

No matter how old you are, you have more years ahead of you than people of your age did in earlier decades and centuries.

And no, the extra years of life will not be spent senile in a rocking chair. Of course the longer you live, the more of those years you'll live as an older person, with its inevitable aches and pains. But bodies that are better at resisting a mortal blow are also better at resisting the lesser assaults of disease, injury, and wear.

people today live far more years in the pink of health than their ancestors lived altogether, healthy and infirm years combined

Si algo no puede continuar indefinidamente, puede continuar mucho más tiempo del que piensas».

It makes no sense to scrimp all your life so that you can have one hell of a ninetieth birthday bash.

But the fact that experts' assertions about maximum possible life expectancy have repeatedly been shattered (on average five years after they were published) raises the question of whether longevity will increase indefinitely and someday slip the surly bonds of mortality entirely.

But if popular impressions are a guide, today's Americans are not one and a half times happier (as they would be if happiness tracked income), or a third happier (if it tracked education), or even an eighth happier (if it tracked longevity).

For many people the greatest fear raised by the prospect of a longer life is dementia, but another pleasant surprise has come to light: between 2000 and 2012, the rate among Americans over 65 fell by a quarter, and the average age at diagnosis rose from 80.7 to 82.4 years.

That bias is built in because of the asymmetry of time: there is a nonzero probability at any moment that we will be felled by an unpreventable accident like a lightning strike or landslide, making the advantage of any costly longevity gene moot.

As the decades pass, depressed people are more likely to die of suicide and other causes, so the old people who remain in a sample are the mentally healthier ones, making it seem as if everyone who was born long ago is mentally healthier.

The Longer You Love, The Longer You Live, The Stronger You Feel, The More You Can Give.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

Arsenal means every thing to me. I've been here since I was nine and I love the Club.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony.