You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and…

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while…

— Socrates

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

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

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

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

— Gary Krist

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

“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

“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

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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

“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 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

“[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

“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

“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