Gerontology Quotes

“Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.”
― Anca Ioviţă

“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one. We are able to do the latter only insofar as we are already doing the former. As with narrative in general, then, reading our lives is not merely a metaphor for how we make sense of our lives. It is how we make sense of our lives.”
― William L. Randall, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old

“We are the first generations in history with the opportunity to rethink what an entire lifetime can become. The greatest revolution in longevity is not simply that we are living longer, but that we can thrive in place at any age.”
— Julie A. Ortega, M.A.”
― Julie A. Ortega