Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of…

“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,…

— Julian Barnes

“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have…

— Irvin S. Cobb

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his…

— Ingo F. Walther

“You were burning in the middle of the worst solar storm our records can remember. (...) Everyone else fled. All your companions and crew…

— John C. Wright

When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of…

— Eckhart Tolle

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You…

— Joan Didion

“I sit, this evening, far away, From all I used to know, And nought reminds my soul to-day Of happy long ago. Unwelcome cares,…

— Patrick Branwell Brontë

“why as a society we are often so cruel or oblivious to the elderly. Why do we find it so easy to make jokes…

— Hugh Thomson

The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.

— Gary Krist

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching…

— Vaslav Nijinsky

Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse)…

— Isaac Asimov

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

— William Hazlitt

“4. Life Consists in Conflict. Life consists in conflict. So long as man remains a social animal he cannot live in isolation. All individual…

— Kaiten Nukariya