Top 57 Elderly Life Quotes
#1. Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.
Julian Barnes
#2. If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
Arthur Smith
#3. Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.
Criss Jami
#4. It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'
Alan King
#6. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.
Rita Dove
#7. Once it is acceptable to kill unborn children, no one who is weak or vulnerable can be safe. Is a handicapped person fully human? Is his life meaningful? How about the elderly? If those who cannot think do not deserve to live, what about those who think the wrong way?
Randy Alcorn
#9. I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Gary Ackerman
#10. The adult were once young.
The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
Terry Pratchett
#15. People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration ... It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there.
Duane Hanson
#17. We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.
Annie Lennox
#19. The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#22. If it wasn't for the elderly we wouldn't be were we are today.
Nettie Febus
#23. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society ... the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.
Pope Francis
#24. You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.
Dave Barry
#25. The way Misha tells it, he drove like a blind man, giving the car almost full independence to feel its way along, bumping off things, only giving the wheel a spin with the tips of this fingers when the situation verged on life threatening.
Nicole Krauss
#27. The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.
Gerald Durrell
#29. When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim ...
Ann Benton
#30. 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.
Lewis Mumford
#31. I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.
Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.
Viola Shipman
#34. The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.
Isaac Asimov
#35. A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#36. Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.
Pope Francis
#37. The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. 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?
Virginia Woolf
#39. Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#40. When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#41. My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
P.L. Travers
#42. Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power; but it might just as well have been said that he had all his life long only been a many-sided dilettante.
Robert Musil
#43. This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.
[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]
Emmanuel Aghado
#46. The further life advanced, the more protective the elderly were of their good days: nothing should imperil the time they had left.
Nina George
#47. The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law.
George W. Bush
#50. Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.
Bob Hope
#52. Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings.
Jay Leno
#53. Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle.
#54. It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
Gore Vidal
#55. Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
Annie Lennox
#56. As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#57. The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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