Quotes About Senility

#1. That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

H.L. Mencken

#2. Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.

Henry Chadwick

#3. 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

#4. I am in the prime of senility.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

Harry S. Truman

#7. There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

Paul Erdos

#8. Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.

Alex Dow

#9. Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Martin Amis

#10. Inflation is the senility of democracies.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#11. God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.

Ron Sims

#12. In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Edward Abbey

#13. What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is death, there is disease, there is impotence and senility ahead

David Lodge

#14. There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are the progenitors of admiration.

Lionel Suggs

#15. Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#16. I am in the prime of my senility.

Joel Chandler Harris

#17. A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

John Barth

#18. Sometimes I worry that there's not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I'm a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won't be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that's what senility is.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Tom Lehrer

#20. Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.

James Gleick

#21. A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Henry Chadwick

#22. I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Mary Roach

#23. It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

Shane Leslie

#24. 'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

Bill Cosby

#25. It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility; a heroic one when faced with torture or the avoidable deaths of others; a glamourous one in the fury of dissappointed love (see: Great Literature).

Julian Barnes

#26. For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

William Osler

#27. It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

Robert B. Laughlin

#28. [In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious ...

May Sarton

#29. To a man of certain age ... all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#30. I have this condition I call impromptu senility. I can't remember a damn thing when I don't want to.

Laurann Dohner

#31. You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me ... It's called senility.

Robert Anton Wilson

#32. that's what I love about you," he said. "You help the mantle of senility rest so gently.

Steven F. Havill

#33. God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D.H. Lawrence

#34. There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

H.L. Mencken

#35. I think senility is going to be a fairly smooth transition for me. - TRUE FACT Beep

Darynda Jones

#36. You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

A. Whitney Brown

#37. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#38. This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit,
between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values alive

Fazlur Rahman

#39. [...]when everybody starts laughing at Ra's old hair and senility he gets real pissed and when you are a god and you are real pissed there is only one solution, my friends: GENOCIDE.

Cory O'Brien

#40. My anger, because I am old, is considered a sign of madness or senility. Is this not cruel? Are we to be deprived even of righteous anger? Is even irritability to be treated as a "symptom"? There

May Sarton

#41. 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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#43. 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