Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

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

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

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

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

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

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.

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

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

The old are in a second childhood.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

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.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?