Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

I think old people should just be old and go away.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

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

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

In America, the old are neglected.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

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

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

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.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

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.