Joni Mitchell Quotes

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

You can't work all your life.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live one day at a time, enjoying the best of life, just living.

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.

In advanced age, and in cases of disability from accident, natural infirmity or any other cause, the individual shall be supported by the colony, and receive every comfort which kindness can administer

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.