“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that… — Ingo F. Walther Copy Share Image
“You were burning in the middle of the worst solar storm our records can remember. (...) Everyone else fled. All your companions… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I sit, this evening, far away, From all I used to know, And nought reminds my soul to-day Of happy long ago.… — Patrick Branwell Brontë Copy Share Image
“why as a society we are often so cruel or oblivious to the elderly. Why do we find it so easy to… — Hugh Thomson Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death. — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt… — Vaslav Nijinsky Copy Share Image
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“4. Life Consists in Conflict. Life consists in conflict. So long as man remains a social animal he cannot live in isolation.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I have been with many men approaching death; and not one has ever said, �I only regret that I didn't spend more… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“The machinery of the sky that confounds us on earth with endless transformations of clouds in the light of dawn does not… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
“Without guidance and support for patients and families approaching death, there may be unnecessary conflict, confusion, and trauma that linger long after… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“He could not remember the last time he had cried. He did not want to stand and show them his teary face… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Are slowly approaching death every moment / I know it is real life but still want to remain anonymous — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
