“Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
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Thoughts. Translation by J.G. Nichols [Hesperus Press, 2002, ISBN 9781843910121], p. 6
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The Law and the Lady (1875)

"The Captain", Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps

“Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

M. Walshe, trans. (1987), Sutta 9, verse 28, p. 164
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Digha Nikaya (Long Discourses)