Kris Kristofferson Quotes

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

You get old, you slow down.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I am not doddery... doddery I am not!

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.