Quotes About Senescence

#1. Senescence begins
And middle-age ends
The day your descendants
Outnumber your friends

Ogden Nash

#2. PATRIOTIC AND TRIBAL feelings belong to the squalling childhood of the human race, and become no more charming in their senescence.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the skin of a void, and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.

David Foster Wallace

#4. The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

S. Jay Olshansky

#5. Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

Sathya Sai Baba

#6. And since a more convincing argument could not be found - aside from a fatal accident or suicide - this way was chosen: a process of galloping senescence.

Mircea Eliade

#7. All complex life shares an astonishing catalogue of elaborate traits, from sex to cell suicide to senescence, none of which is seen in a comparable form in bacteria.

Nick Lane

#8. We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

Aubrey De Grey

#9. An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

Jean Kerr

#10. You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

S. Jay Olshansky

#11. The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

George C. Williams

#12. As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

Anthony Burgess

#13. He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.

Matthew Thomas

#14. I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

Dara Torres

#15. Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.

Judy Blume

#16. You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

Jocelyn Murray

#18. God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.

Origen

#19. You never wore that blue gown for a lover?'
'Absolutely not!' She felt a little indignant at the very idea. 'You think I have a wardrobe just to satisfy my illicit desires? My maid took off its underskirt because she wanted to make sure you found me desirous.

Eloisa James