Johnia Quotes & Sayings

I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that. — Randy Houser

It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence. — Pope John Paul II

I thought it such a shame that our culture had not devised a way to defang old age. A sophisticated civilization wouldn't ridicule senility, it would elevate it, worship it, wouldn't it? We would train ourselves to see poetry in the nonsense of dementia, to actually look forward to becoming so untethered from the world. We'd make a ceremony of casting off our material goods and confining ourselves to a single room, leaving all our old, abandoned space to someone new, someone young, so that we could die alone, indifferent to our own decay and lost beauty. (127 — Timothy Schaffert

At the other end of the room the three old men discussed infirmities; exchanging symptoms in undertones as boys might speak of lust. — Shirley Hazzard

A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house? — Jodi Picoult