Elderly Quotes

THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.

~ Suzy Kassem

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

~ Germany Kent

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.

~ Neil Gaiman

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age, it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

~ Olivia Sudjic

The glory of the elderly is their insight to life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the same time that a massive deployment of biologically harmful radio frequency (RF) radiation devices across the mass population has occurred, we see the reduction of health care for the poor, sick and elderly.

~ Steven Magee

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...

~ Robert Wesley Miller

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

~ Rita Dove

Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A change in hairstyle gives a new look.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.

~ Criss Jami

We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of smell to do the exact same thing. It is known that the scent of fresh rosemary increases memory, but this cure for memory loss is not divulged by doctors to help the elderly. I also know that the most effective use of the blue lotus flower is not from its dilution with wine or tea – but from its scent. To really maximize the positive effects of the blue lily (or the pink lotus), it must be sniffed within minutes of plucking. This is why it is frequently shown being sniffed by my ancient ancestors on the walls of temples and on papyrus. Even countries across the Orient share the same imagery. The sacred lotus not only creates a relaxing sensation of euphoria, and increases vibrations of the heart, but also triggers genetic memory - and good memory with an awakened heart ushers wisdom.

~ Suzy Kassem

The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.

~ Criss Jami

We men have always fought to protect others... since the ancient times. Even though we were naked, and only had sticks and stones to defend ourselves... we still had the elderly, the young, our wives, friends, family, and homes... and to protect all of that we braved any danger, no matter what... and fought! And even among those cavemen there were useless failures! Just like how we are today! But in the end, even they gathered their courage, and fought! And, not surprisingly, being incompetent... they were killed! Even thought it was the death of an idiot... it was also... the death of a selfless hero!

~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto

Be charming.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.

~ Lynda I Fisher

Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors . . . No, it isn't.

~ Fannie Flagg

Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a need to say or do something, now, now, the minute it is thought of, combined with that other sense, of the complete irrelevance of time.

~ Susan Hill

Blessed is the society with elderly souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Blessed is the society that has oldies.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

From warm meals, to daily exercise, to healthcare; one can't help but wonder how our society would be different if tended to the elderly as we do to our imprisoned.

~ Steve Maraboli

We are never old with the strength of the spirit, although the body may fail.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.

~ Morton Shaevitz

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

~ Robert K. Greenleaf

The paradox of life, I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Once we were young, now we are adult.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?

~ Joyce Rachelle

Rosie loved Tom. Rosie had always loved Tom and, although she was unable to measure always in terms of years and months, this made perfect sense to her. Their love was not constrained by the mortal bonds of time; it was eternal, ageless and ancient beyond all recollection and record.

~ Tanya Bullock

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents. Later on in life, when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since we are dependent on the kindness of others at the beginning and end of our lives, then how can we neglect projecting kindness towards others in the middle of our lives, when it is our best time to share it?

~ Suzy Kassem

Do not forget you mother, when she is old.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Youthful exuberance is splendid.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita