Senility Quotes - Page 2

• People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not.

  Zhuangzi

  Fashion, Fate, Men

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

  Bill Cosby

  Worry, Grandfather, Age

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Attitude, Believe

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• 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

  Education, School, Age

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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• Retirement: statutory senility.

  Emmett O'Donnell, Jr.

  Retirement

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• 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

  Looks, Revolution, Facts

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• Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.

  Oswald Spengler

  Strong, War, Men

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• 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

  Dream, Reality, Worry

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1008, Dell

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• It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, New York, Hygiene

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.23, Verso

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• Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved 'happiness'-who fear moods, who shun solitude, who do not know the diginity of occasional depression-can find bliss easily enough: in tranquilizing pills, or in senility. The purpose of life is not to be happy.

  Leo Rosten

  Pain, Solitude, Meaning Of Life

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• 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

  Time, Worry, Grace

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Jobs, Maturity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• I dont 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

  Beach, Pain, Loneliness

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• Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Baby, Years, Creative

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• 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

  Writing, Years, Knowing

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• 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

  Race, Prejudice, Arguing

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.7, 谷月社

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• [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

  Age, Innocence, Moments

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It bothers me when I can't, for example, remember a name. I don't know if it's pre-senility or whether there are too many names packed in our brains.

  Phillip Lopate

  Names, Brain, Example

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

  Martin Amis

  Age, Twenties, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.315, Vintage

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