All Quotes By Tag: Senility

“We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
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“I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.”

Card image cap - Patrick White,
Tag: disbelief, false-teeth, farting, myths, old-age, senility, wisdom, youth,