Senility Quotes (14 quotes)

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays

tags: children, fairies, hero-worship, john-f-kennedy, kennedy-family, politics, puerility, robert-dallek, robert-f-kennedy, senility, united-states

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“I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.”
― Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces

tags: disbelief, false-teeth, farting, myths, old-age, senility, wisdom, youth

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“Most people do not have a problem with being old. They have a problem with looking old.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aged, appearance, feeble, feebleness, looks, old, old-age, senile, senility, white-hair, wrinkles

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“After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: age, aging, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, better, bodily, body, change, changes, dead, death, develop, development, die, for-the-better, for-the-worst, frail, frailty, funny, grow, growth, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, joke, jokes, old-age, satire, senile, senility, worse, wrinkle, wrinkles

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“We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George Long

tags: death, dementia, dotage, impending-death, life, memento-mori, old-age, senility

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“There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You”
― Angelica Hopes

tags: abusive-kin, character, envy, greed, laziness, pride, senility, wrath

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“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“The trouble with being a rock of sense is that, eventually, you lose the sense and become the rock.”
― Stewart Stafford

tags: decrepitude, mental-deterioration, senile, senility, sensible, sensible-person, sensible-thinking, wise, wise-man, wise-man-quotes

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“Senility is best described in the old tongue, duine le Dia, for in that phrase is a kinder, more understanding view of the condition. Its literal meaning is “a person of God,” for only the person’s maker can now understand him.”
― John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm

tags: aging, alzheimers, dementia, senility

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“You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

tags: death, going-crazy, hearing-voices, regrets, senility

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“Silly youth and presumptuous senility: the world remains the same as always...”
― Jeff Ampolini

tags: ages, senility, youth

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“Настовбурчені брови, на лобі кривуля,
хмуровоке барило, і ніс як багруля.

Щось обрезкле і тмасте, —
Якої ж я масти?

Сивий, голубе, сивий…”
― Ліна Костенко, Берестечко

tags: gray-hair, old-age, oldness, senility

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