Mary Roach

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

American Author

Paul Erdos

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.

Hungarian Mathematician

D. H. Lawrence

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

English Writer

Robert B. Laughlin

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

American Physicist

Robert Anton Wilson

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.

American Writer

Martin Amis

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

British Author

Henry Chadwick

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Shane Leslie

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

Irish Diplomat

Tom Lehrer

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

American Musician

Joel Chandler Harris

American Journalist

Senility often carries a sad or negative feeling, reflecting the challenges of aging.

Negative Connotation

Use 'senility' mostly in medical or personal discussions about elderly health.

Context Specificity

'Senility' refers to aging-related decline, not all mental impairments.

Not Interchangeable

Use 'senility' with caution in non-medical contexts to avoid misunderstanding.

Medical Language

Do not confuse 'senility' with general physical weakness; it primarily refers to mental decline.

Not General Weakness

Senility varies greatly between individuals; some may never experience it.

Variability

 That means that if you sit at the left side of the distribution, and I'm looking at your neuropyschological abilities, the average person has moved to the middle or the right side of the distribution. It means that most people who are at risk for senility, more or less immediately, are now in a protected position.