The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Boomer Envy: Envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by older members of the baby boom generation by virtue of fortunate births.

Upon my enquiring as to what he feared most of the future, he answered: “Destitution. Destitution of finances, destitution of mind, destitution of love. The inability to retort. The need of possessing one’s opposite in years, sex, and texture of the skin; and the knowledge that by this need one has been made repugnant. The replacing of independence by solitude.”

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

and they [the boomers] definitely pranked us fiscally with debt that [we] will never be able to pay off.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth: Hemingstein's Law on the Dynamics of Dying.

My mother’s biggest fear was the threat of amputations,

the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

We are afraid of the old age which we may never attain.

My greatest fear would be the fear of failure.

your worst fear is going broke

mine is ending up in a meeting i dont want to be in

we are not the same

The rich have a horror of Poverty because they have a dim foreboding of the expiatory interchange implied by her presence.