Quotes About Longevity

Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.

Longevity depended on peace. Peace was the source of self-assurance, and self-assurance allowed one to cleanse one's life of needless upsets, twists and turns. Self-assurance allowed one to take decisions for the prolonging of one's life. Self-assurance led to the future.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Sean's (Penn) is going to be the new Dustin Hoffman. He'll be around a long time.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your life until you never lived it at all. Just so it was possible. Just so long as you could, you never actually did. Just so you didn't ruin it.

A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.

He's ninety-two years old," Mr. Willet whispered to Min and Flora. "And my hearing is as sharp as ever," he said, and everyone laughed.

Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of brain-power, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life. Men of genius stand to society in the relation of its intellect, as men of character of its conscience; and while the former are admired, the latter are followed.

people, who "dig their grave with their teeth.

if you stop "thrashing your liver" into an early state of exhaustion, you will add many years to your life.

Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.

Life is long. And it's getting longer for most of us. Most people in this country will have three or four marriages in their lifetime. Each one will challenge them and suit them in a different way. The lucky few, the ones who are willing to work at it, will have a handful of very different marriages, all with the same person. —

Life is long. And it's getting longer for most of us. Most people in this country will have three or four marriages in their lifetime. Each one will challenge them and suit them in a different way. The lucky few, the ones who are willing to work at it, will have a handful of very different marriages, all with the same person. —Constance Waverly TED Talk

Oh, God! Art is long And life is short.

Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody can reach in this life to feeling immortal.

is likely to survive for another 100 billion years or more.

Happy Birthday, Thomas Hayward. Unfortunately he's dead, he would have been 177 today. Only a year younger than me.

He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn't make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer.

The great revenge is to outlive your critics.

How long is the Tale? she had asked, and Mrs. Underhill had said: you and your children and your children's children will all be buried before that Tale's all told.

In our youth-oriented culture, aging is feared, something to be put off as long as possible.It has been said:"Everyone wants to live a long time, but no one wants to grow old.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.