No, there's not a lot to envy about the old days. But something has been lost.
Ronald Blythe
Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book
age names book crossed elderly
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
living ordinariness thing
He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.
lost found bear
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
strength weakness life people death special die stage
days lost envy
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
help church explanation british
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... The reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
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