Elderly People Quotes

“Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“How is it that we have become so certain that the sight of years, the summation of decades, should inflict such violence on the viewer - including family - that we have built entire fortresses to keep such bodies out of sight?”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“Gray hair is a crown of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Every one of these old people... were as shriveled as prunes, and as bony as skeletons, and throughout the day... they lay huddled in their... bed... dozing the time away with nothing to do. But as soon as they heard the door opening, and heard Charlie's voice saying, "Good evening, Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine, and Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina," then all four of them would suddenly sit up, and their old wrinkled faces would light up with smiles of pleasure-and the talking would begin. For they loved this little boy. He was the only bright thing in their lives, and his evening visits were something that they looked forward to all day long. Often, Charlie's mother and father would come in as well, and stand by the door, listening to the stories that the old people told; and thus, for perhaps half an hour every night, this room would become a happy place, and the whole family would forget that it was hungry and poor.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Gray hair is the glory of a long life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is a blessed bliss to live to be old.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The glory of age is beauty of gray hair.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Embrace the glory of age.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Capriciousness is the preserve of the old. So marvelous to be able to let random thoughts pour from the mind to the tongue without pause or retribution.”
― Hannah Rothschild, House of Trelawney

“At old age, one realizes that life is truly a dream.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Blessed are the elderly men and women.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“If I were offering hip replacement services I'd use Jarod Kintz as my spokesman. No one can possibly be better than him, to replace the missing spoke in your wheels.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“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

“As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As an adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The glory of the elderly is long life with grey hair.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“En un sens, le titre d’ancien, utilisé à son adresse par l’homme des bois, le ravit. C’est la reconnaissance implicite du peuple des bois à son égard, l’offre respectueuse de partager une existence en ces terres. Opinant du chef, Gibbie soutient :
- J’ai les paumes pleines de farine.
- Mes doigts sont percés d’échardes, agrée simplement Kardys.
Les bruits reprennent dans le moulin, chacun revenant à ce qu’il faisait. Le grand forestier poursuit :
- Alors, c’en était bien un…
- Un Pâle-de-la-Nuit, réaffirme lugubrement le meunier.
Et d’ajouter à la cantonade, avant de se replonger dans sa chope :
- Je l’ai vu et entendu comme je vous vois.”
― Cyrille Mendes, Les Épieurs d'Ombre

“My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah, said, "Money matters is only a matter of fancy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Protecting the elderly, keeping them alive is keeping our memories alive in real life; it is to keep our past literally in today's time!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The wisest young is the young who can look at the world through the eyes of the elderly!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In a world where the keywords for salvation are stop, return and regress, old people are extremely valuable. Man has been formed in such a way that the little wisdom that certain individuals possess tends to gradually accumulate in the course of the years. One of the insanities perpetuated by the frenzied times we are living in is the trivialisation and marginalisation of the elderly. Only a small percentage of elderly people suffers from illnesses leading to dementia: most people are certainly wiser at the age of ninety than they are at that of eighty-nine. The young human being will always be an unripe fruit and crude specimen: both wisdom and sense of responsibility tend to develop in one’s old age (if they were ever there in the first place, that is), while irrelevancies fade away. If the minimum age requirement for all the decision makers of mankind were, say, eighty, much would already have been achieved. Many harmful delusions would have been avoided, and destruction would now be advancing at a far slower pace.”
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

“Barry, júrame que no dejarás que te olvide, que nos olvide. ¡Júramelo!”
― Josh T. Baker, La vida secreta de Sarah Brooks

“The Familiar Squatter by Stewart Stafford

Stranger at a ranting roundabout,
Changeling deep in a cranial fog,
An infant brooked with abandon,
The frail bitterness fumed within.

Another dawn, the lid loosens more,
Recognition dims, pleading for hints,
Let me see my reflection in full now,
Squatter with a thousand-yard stare.

A planet downsized to an asteroid belt,
Leave, and I surrender to disintegrate,
Core melts inside this atrophying shell,
Beyond repair, a journey of light ahead.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“When the future begins to run out, the journey to the past in our minds increases tremendously because there is no longer any room to go beyond, so we go back to expand our lives in a virtual way!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The Eviction by Stewart Stafford

The mind's paper vessel crumples
Sodden with learning and memory
Ne'er to sail waves of reminiscence
A living statue, hewn by sculptor Time.

The physician nor the shaman console
Self-pitying sobs in the moaning wind
Brought down by jackals in the dunes
The skull's tenant but a daily squatter

Nostalgic waves batter alien shores
Déjà vu of the blood and the collegial
A stranger's reflection in misting eyes
A sandcastle sacked to the four winds

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“Kaida's attorney suggested a quit claim deed as the best vehicle for transferring Gail’s home into Kaida's name with a limiting clause for a life estate for Gail. The single page was drafted on his computer.
When Gail asked Kaida why her beneficiary deed and her will were not sufficient, Kaida told her the new “trust” was more complete. It ensured that Grant and Paige would finally inherit her property at the end of Kaida’s life. It would also substantially help her build Kaida’s credit back from the bankruptcy to have her name on the deed.
Gail certainly loved Kaida and her grandchildren. Gail trusted Kaida’s promise to care for her in her old age, and she believed their funds had become hopelessly co-mingled, so that sitting in the attorney’s office that day, she finally agreed to sign the trust document with a “joint tenancy life estate” on her property. It felt like a business transaction. It was only right to incentivize Kaida for her promise to care for her in her old age.”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“Es que es verdad, al final es muy duro. Uno piensa que tendrá tiempo para decir las cosas y cuando se quiere dar cuenta ya es demasiado tarde. Uno piensa que basta con dar muestras de cariño, con hacer gestos, pero no es verdad, hay que decir lo que se siente. Decir, esa palabra que tanto te gusta, Michael. Las palabras son muy importantes, no hace falta que te lo diga a ti, que fuiste correctora de una importante revista, sino me equivoco.”
― Delphine de Vigan