SENILITY QUOTES

quotations about senility

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One of those kids somewhere is going to find a cure for senility, and I'm in a hurry, you know.

LEON LEDERMAN

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All within the realms of possibility
We were young and fool enough to care
Listening to dealing in senility
Kaleidoscopic patterns in my mind

ANDY BELL

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His blooming senility is nuanced with wisdom, clarity, ignorance and irascible obnoxiousness.

CAROL PANASCI

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One advantage of senility is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.

ANONYMOUS

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Hear that lonesome whistle blow
No direction to be known
In a senile revelry
A tearful gaze turns away
Emoting cold and grey
Scented eunuchs
Clothe our wretchedness
Looking back at some dead world
That looks so new

BECK

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We'll be friends until we're old and senile, then we'll be new friends.

ANONYMOUS

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Since there's no cure for senility, whatever its cause, many people commonly assume that nothing can be done. However, patients' families can ease the stress of dementia. Probably the best thing families can do is to involve the patient in family activities as much as possible.

EUGENE GARFIELD

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Sometimes her senility is amusing; we watch her get up and go into the other room and then she forgets why she got up in the first place. We call her name from five feet away and she stares at the wall. It's silly, and we chuckle and go to her and shower love. Other times it is far from amusing, when I realize that the connection we've shared for 14.5 years is slowly being frayed, chewed apart by the senility monster who has no qualms with destroying our heart line.

MARIA BURNHAM

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I can't wait to be old growing senile together
Holding hands and both completely out of our heads
We won't notice when we're dead
We'll be too busy dreaming too busy dreaming

OF MONTREAL

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Senility from the perspective of an individual who has prepared for it consciously ... is an altered state of consciousness, which when accepted as a phenomenal opportunity, becomes a school of learning that leads to Physical Immortality and Life Everlasting.

TONI DELGADO

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Senility is an overworked diagnosis.

WALLACE CLAUS MATSEN

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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.

PATRICK WHITE

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But supposing senility
takes the brain in its soft retriever's mouth
and carries it to be gutted, supposing all
the recent layers plucked away and memory's microscope doors flung wide
for the oldest to come forth: Would third-grade Ruth be missing
and unmissed, or Mary or Brenda, with random trivial comrades,
or would the whole host stagger out, one missing legs, another clothes,
with synthetic pearls for eyes or carrot noses?
Or would each corridor dead-end on a scaly tinfoil mirror
showing nothing but the scowling smear
of some old unfamiliar woman's face?

SARAH LINDSAY

Tags: Sarah Lindsay

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There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

STANISLAW ULAM

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Embrace the senile genius
Watch him reinvent the wheel

PAVEMENT

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Although senility is one of the most dreaded problems in life and one of the most disabling illnesses of the elderly American, it remains a much misunderstood, "hush-hush" subject. The young laugh at senility, the middle-aged worry about senility in their parents, and the old fear senility in themselves.

ALBERTA A. FISK

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I am ... in the prime of senility.

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

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Trying not to look at the jam on his chin, I asked him if there was a cure for senility.

MARY DOWNING HAHN

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Senility is not a true medical diagnosis, but a wastebasket term for a range of symptoms.

CHARLES ZASTROW & KAREN KIRST-ASHMAN

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Good students of the aging brain must, therefore, transcend the stereotype with which most Westerners were raised: that senility is inevitable; that anyone who lives long enough will eventually lose his memory, his wit, his mind.

ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

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