Elderly quotes
214 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Bush equals Clinton equals Bush equals Obama equals Clinton. It's the same policies...immigration policies that may turn us into Europe, where hordes of Islamic madmen are raping, killing, pillaging, defecating in public fountains, harassing private citizens, elderly people - that's what's coming."
"Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly."
"Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish."
"I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old."
"It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch."
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"The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances."
"It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies."
"I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me."
"Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years."
"Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter."
"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."
"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
"As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here."
"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick"
"Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?"
"Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above."
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
"There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."
"I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?"
"It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways."
"And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly."
"At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout."
"Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like, sure. I volunteered. I had been in a place in my life - a relationship had ended; my parents were getting elderly - I was kind of adrift. The name that was given to me, just randomly, was Todd Willingham. And he wrote me a letter, and in this letter, he thanked me for writing him and [said that] if I would like to visit, he would put me on his visitor list... I was just really struck by the letter from Todd. It was very polite; it was very kind."
"Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering."
"An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men."
