Seniors Quotes

“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.”
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present!”
― Marcia Casar Friedman

“At this stage of my life, I've finally come to realize I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.”
― C.J. Heck

“Getting older happens suddenly. It's like swimming out to sea and realising that the shore you're making for isn't the shore where you started out.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

“[H]umilié par la vie, qui l'un après l'autre avait soufflé ses rêves, [Don Ruggero] mettait la démence entre sa défaite et lui.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, A Coin in Nine Hands

“I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.”
― Linda Robinson, Chantepleure

“You make it to a hundred and ten you can do whatever you want. White people haven't killed you yet, you get a free pass.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

“If white people haven't killed you yet, you can do what you want. You didn't have to reach a hundred years to get to that place. In a world this low, dumb, and cruel, every day white people ain't killed you yet is a win. It was after midnight. He'd survived another gauntlet.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

“Studies show that entering or re-entering the workforce at later ages is more difficult than at younger ages-INTERVIEW JOB APPLICATION AND RESUME WRITING TIPS FOR JOBSEEKERS 50 AND OVER, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK”
― V J Smith, GREAT SALAD RECIPES

“You're not getting old, you're getting better...Seniors Rock!”
― Nanette L. Avery

“You're not getting old, you're getting better. Seniors Rock!”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Romance among the chronologically challenged is giggle fodder. For the youthful, lovelorn and wrinkly don’t blend, or not without farce.”
― Margaret Atwood

“The young were at least smooth-skinned and straight; the old were flabby and wrinkled. At least, he thought, they should pony up some piece of timeless wisdom to make up for their wretchedness: yet most shambled from breakfast to bedtime in the same dumb state that had taken them through adolescence. A fair number had grown up quite simply dimwits, and stubbornly remained so even in their dotage. He wanted to venerate them, for with their lined faces and dignified bearing they reminded him of august men of state. But then they spoke.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream

“He thought how the world would feel if it were populated solely by elderly women--a world of forbearance, where all touches were careful.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream

“Life is Simple - Just Allow It to Work Simply.”
― Amrit Narain

“Life becomes lighter the moment we stop forcing and start allowing.”
― Amrit Narain

“A calm mind is not a gift of age — it is a decision we make each day.”
― Amrit Narain

“Aging is not losing strength; it is gaining clarity about what truly matters.”
― Amrit Narain

“Nothing in nature struggles to be itself. When we live naturally, life works.”
― Amrit Narain

“Your mind remains powerful as long as you keep using it consciously.”
― Amrit Narain

“The lecture halls of the world are filled with senior citizens who seek greater knowledge and wisdom. The explanatory drive that was there when they were babies is still there now.

Wisdom at this phase of life is the ability to see the connections between things. It’s the ability to hold opposite truths—contradictions and paradoxes—in the mind at the same time, without wrestling to impose some linear order. It’s the ability to see things from multiple perspectives.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“After a life of loving the old, by natural law I turned old myself. Decades followed each other--thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty began to extend the bliss of fifty--and then came my cancers, Jane’s death, and over the years I traveled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people are a separate form of life. They have green skin, with two heads that sprout antennae. They can be pleasant, they can be annoying—in the supermarket, these old ladies won’t get out of my way—but most important they are permanently other. When we turn eighty, we understand that we are extraterrestrial. If we forget for a moment that we are old, we are reminded when we try to stand up, or when we encounter someone young, who appears to observe green skin, extra heads, and protuberances.”
― Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

“I survive into my eighties, writing, and oddly cheerful, although disabled and largely alone. There is only one road.”
― Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

“An op-ed in the Boston Globe, remarking on near-corpses who keep on doing what they've always done, compared me to Mick Jagger. Never before had I been so honored. The columnist mentioned others: Keith Richards, Alice Munro, and William Trevor, who was born the year I was. At seventy, Jagger is a juvenile among us eighty-five-year-olds—but his face as he jumps and gyrates resembles something retrieved from a bog.”
― Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

“My problem isn’t death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down. Yesterday I fell asleep in an armchair. I never fall asleep in a chair. Indolence overcomes me every day. I sit daydreaming about what I might do next: putting on a sweater or eating a piece of pie or calling my daughter. Sometimes I break through my daydream to stand up. At Christmas or birthday, I no longer want objects, even books. I want things I can eat, cheddar or Stilton, my daughter’s chili, and replacements for worn-out khakis, T-shirts, socks, and underwear.”
― Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

“When I was thirty, I lived in the future because the present was intolerable. When I was fifty and sixty, the day of love and work repeated itself year after year. Old age sits in a chair, writing a little and diminishing.”
― Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

“I think it's ageist," Emily said. "Is Joe Biden too old to be president?"

"That would be a valid question if he'd run against anyone but Trump," Kitzi said, cutting the deck for her.

"Amen," Susie said.”
― Stewart O'Nan, Evensong

“It was stifling inside and the ward smelled of scrambled eggs and urine. She didn't like to think the facility was a pit, as Emily put it, but each time she walked the gauntlet of the main hall, it was littered with trash and the call lights were blinking madly above the patients' doors, their wails beseeching the staff for help. Here, among the senile and dying, she felt obscenely young and healthy, near superhuman. Why was she repulsed? This was what awaited all of them, the body and mind's inevitable breakdown, just another stage of life, yet, undeniably, she was, and this failure--her cowardice in the face of others' suffering--angered her.”
― Stewart O'Nan, Evensong