Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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.
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
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.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.