He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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