„At my age, all my friends, doctors, and attorneys are dead. The good thing about this is that there’s no one left who can refute my stories.“

— George Burns

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„At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone … & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world….“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„Then spoke the thunderDA Datta: what have we given?My friend, blood shaking my heartThe awful daring of a moment's surrenderWhich an age of prudence can never retractBy this, and this only, we have existed.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! Now, some rare fly will fly over me, crap on my shoulder, and I'll drop dead, you know? My life story is a real-life story.“
— Ozzy Osbourne
„Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings… but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.“
— Margaret Atwood
„I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my lids and all is born again.“
— Sylvia Plath
„Your lordship, only worldly light in this age of ours, you can never be pleased with another man's work for there is no man who resembles you, nor one to equal you … It grieves me greatly that I cannot recapture my past, so as to longer be at your service. As it is, I can only offer you my future, which is short, for I am too old … That is all I have to say. Read my heart for "the quill cannot express good will."“
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
„Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.“
— Stephen King