So Little Time?

We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Facing the Inevitable

Die early or grow old; there is no other alternative. And yet, as Goethe said, "Age takes hold of us by surprise."

Death Is Not the Enemy

Let me underscore ... an idea that human minds grasp while human hearts resist: "Death is not the enemy." Just think: if people didn't move ...

Fatal Disease

As when medical men examine an illness, and ascertain that it is fatal, they make this pronouncement, "He will die, he will not get over this," ...

Grave Talk: No Glib Comments

When people started fearing death in earnest, they stopped talking about it.

Heedless Knowledge

Man always knows his life will shortly cease,

Yet madly lives as if he knew it not.

Child's Perspective on Death

My 4-year-old granddaughter and I were talking one day about death. Her grandfather has cancer and I wanted to prepare her for the inevitable. She didn't ...

Later Never Comes

For weeks after my last operation [for cancer] -- frail and without energy, sleeping 10 hours--I looked in my house at all the books I had not read and ...

The Time of Our Lives

Time is life--nothing more, nothing less. The way you spend your hours and your days is the way you spend your life.