Comparison Quote by Denis Diderot

I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the bottom of…

— Theodore Roethke

The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands…

— Ted Hughes

When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible…

— Anne Bradstreet

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

— Nella Larsen

The Last of my kind, standing on the edge of extinction. This hollow World, will notice not, my passing, nor care. As my exquisite…

— Eric Nickel

At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and…

— Anonymous

I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening…

— R. S. Thomas

I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is…

— Frances Burnett

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. -…

— Isaac Asimov

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe