Don-t-care Quote by Ricky Gervais

Whereas in America we are so fearful of mortality, we don't want to talk about it, we don't think about it, and in many…

— Lulu Wang

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem…

— Maggie Smith

There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have…

— Sebastian Lelio

“why as a society we are often so cruel or oblivious to the elderly. Why do we find it so easy to make jokes…

— Hugh Thomson

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel…

— Paul Tournier

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

— Philip Roth

“It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young women. It’s because from the time they…

— Haruki Murakami

“We do not (and will not) have the resources to properly care for our increasing elderly population, yet we insist on medical intervention to…

— Caitlin Doughty

Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting…

— Charles Duhigg

They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire…

— Ellen Hopkins

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing…

— Martha Gellhorn

“... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something…

— Muriel Barbery