Senior Romance Quotes

He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

My dad was running up and down stairs at 85; my granddad lived until 96, and married a much younger woman at 86.

An awful lot of older women do have love affairs or wish they were having love affairs.

When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.

The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.