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“The elderly were formerly young before being utterly overtaken by years. It is only orderly that they arrive first at our common destination of…

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!

— Woodrow M. Kroll

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped…

— Ian Mckellen

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the…

— Kenneth Koch

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children…

— Daphne du Maurier

I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to get older.

— Emma Forrest

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

— Angus Deaton

“Remorse is not for the elderly. When it comes to them it is not purging or uplifting, but merely degrading and wretched, like a…

— Christopher Isherwood

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

— Euripides

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic…

— Atul Gawande

“The ideal elder may suffer from bodily ailments and weaknesses, but his mind is quick and sharp, and he has eighty years of insights…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

— Maggie Kuhn