Advice Quote by Shawn Davis

“... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.”

— Philip Roth

“…had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Death is almost never timely, even for the old.”

— Christopher Bram

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”

— Mark Twain

“Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.”

— Jarod Kintz

“He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.”

— John le Carré

“After so many years of living with death, I’d come to understand that the easiest death wasn’t necessarily the best.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his…

— Mitch Albom

“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He…

— Henning Mankell

“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”

— Chad Harbach

“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.”

— John Steinbeck