Old Folks Quotes

“Laughing like crazy
the child goes back to the city
gives birth to monsters
creates earthquakes
hairy women run naked
old folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.”
― Nicanor Parra, Emergency poems

“When old folks laugh,
they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them.”
― Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

“The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.”
― Seré Prince Halverson, All the Winters After

“He didn't
speak. He croaked. And when he croaked, he didn't say much.
He was neither liked nor disliked. He was just there. His face
had wrinkled into strange runs and mounds of unattractive flesh.
No light shone from his face.”
― Bukowski