Quotes About Longevity

I was in forever, not just until I didn't get my way.

Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.

Among the last words that Isocrates ever wrote, before his death at the age of ninety-eight

life span is determined by a fixed amount of metabolic activity: eat less, slow your metabolism, and you may live longer.

Well, anyhow, he thought, the French say that bad temper and stubbornness make one live longer, so I may still be around for a while...

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

So your junk food has a shelf life of twenty-two years and will probably outlive your fat, sorry ass.

People in other cultures consume half the amount of protein that we do, yet they live longer, healthier lives.

Elle ne faisait que divaguer de bonheur et d'optimisme, comme tous les gens qui sont du bon côté de la vie, celui des privilèges, de la santé, de la sécurité et qui en ont encore pour longtemps à vivre

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

Everything else pales next to the fact that he's going to outlive us all. It's probably safer for him not to have intimate friends. I don't care how old you get, Sehvi said. It's never safer to have no friends.

César ou João Fernandes, tudo é viver, assegurar a dinastia e sair do mundo o mais tarde que puder

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were—that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made—on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.

Life is beautiful but it's also brief. It doesn't matter how long you live. What matters is how well you live.

Being happy is a requisite for longevity.

May my haters live long to see my success.

Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

as to our hopes, our dreams, our secret desires, we couldn't talk about those. They were to vague, too frightening, too important. And so they stayed inside us, growing like a cancer, a body eating away at itself. In retrospect I'm amazed how long our marriage lasted.

The benefit of thinking you will die at fifty is that it can spur you to accomplish a lot of things at a young age, which is what I have attempted to do, but now the prospect of living longer makes me uncertain about the plans I've made.

Hard to imagine that the man who made the Gilded Age according to his whims and who died on the cusp of the twentieth century had a great-grandfather born the same year as the Salem witch trials, but such are the long spans of generations.