Roz Chast Quotes

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

There are a lot of elderly people in Flint who are homebound and can't get the supplies they need.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

Old age is life's parody.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

I think that, in our culture, we find older people to be almost invisible, and it's such a shame. The one thing, the one condition that we all suffer from, and that we all benefit from, is ageing. It starts at zero and we're all going in the same direction, and I always try to see the young person underneath the older person and that's all of us. We all feel the same way inside, and I think that there are so many ways for us to age well and to help our senior population get to the golden years with more dignity more independent and more enjoyment.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.