Quotes About Senile

#1. Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

Paul Gauguin

#2. All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill

Stuart Finlay

#3. I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. I am old, not senile,

Sharon Ashwood

#6. I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

Jonathan Brandis

#7. But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

Yasunari Kawabata

#8. Zia's senile grandfather? Nope. That was Ra, god of the sun, first divine pharaoh of Egypt and archenemy of Apophis. Last spring we'd gone on a quest to find him and revive him from his twilight sleep, trusting he would rise in all his glory and fight the Chaos snake for us.

Rick Riordan

#9. I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Elon Musk

#10. We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."

C.S. Lewis

#11. When wise man quits learning,
he will be more senile onwards.

Toba Beta

#12. Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's part of marriage? A hard part, to be sure, but not so hard that one just gives up on the institution altogether.

Sabrina Jeffries

#13. Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

Camilla Lackberg

#14. There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#15. Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

David Ogilvy

#16. 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

#17. All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

Tennessee Williams

#18. When you become senile, you won't know it.

Bill Cosby

#19. The plague of government is senile delinquency.

Mignon McLaughlin

#20. I was like, JUST GREAT! Grandma is finally going SENILE! Doesn't she understand that some things in life you're STUCK with and powerless to change?! Jeez!

Rachel Renee Russell

#21. You're old. You're senile. You're too calm about this. Something must be wrong ... "
"Wonderful. I'll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room.

John Grisham

#22. I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

Henrik Ibsen

#23. I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.

Fritz Leiber

#24. I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

John Berryman

#25. Maybe I am senile already and people are too kind to tell me. People are not kind and would tell me. (Maybe people have told me, and I'm too senile to remember).

Joseph Heller

#26. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

Joseph Beuys

#27. Nurse, if she didn't have more money than any person ought to have, you might be tempted to call it senile dementia. As it is, she is in for a rest and a check-up.

Robert A. Heinlein

#28. How did it die?" he asked.
"Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires."
He looked at me like I was senile.
"Could have been disease. Violence. Or, sometimes, things die because we don't love them enough.

Jonathan Messinger

#29. For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

Liz Kessler

#30. He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

Robertson Davies

#31. What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#32. Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

Warner Fabian

#33. Al come on. The woman's, like, senile,' I said under my breath. 'Last year she thought me and Hammond were a closeted couple.

Kieran Scott

#34. the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.

Yann Martel

#35. He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Barbara Kingsolver

#36. They say that doing ten sums a day prevents you from becoming senile. But by that argument bankers should be geniuses. That's not right. Thickest heads in the world.

Annie Proulx

#37. She'd captivated him the moment he'd seen her, which seemed a mite odd. He wasn't some pimple-faced boy to fall for a girl on first sight, but he had. Maybe it was a sign of going senile?

Cherise Sinclair

#38. The houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.

Barbara Kingsolver

#39. Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

Carlos Santana

#40. Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Henry Adams

#41. It's human nature to view life from our own reality.
This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.

Jaime Buckley

#42. Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Robert Jordan

#43. I have pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business.

Stieg Larsson

#44. You saved my life. I never want to forget that. Even when I'm old and senile. Even if we drift apart. No matter what happens, I will always hold you close to my heart.

Eden Summers

#45. Things sure are easy to get done when you're old and everyone thinks you're senile.

Carolyn Brown

#46. I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan.
"And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan.

Christopher Moore

#47. When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

George Burns

#48. She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and die

Rosamunde Pilcher

#49. When the senile patient awakens in the morning and asks for his mother, remind him that she is long since dead, that he is over eighty years old and living in a convalescent home, and that this is 1992 and not 1913 and that he must face reality and the fact that

Philip K. Dick

#50. Most people do not have a problem with being old. They have a problem with looking old.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana