“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ”
“Too soon is to waste the good aspects of life, and perhaps unkind to those who love and need you. Too late means you might lose control.”
"When Is the Time to Die?", p. 101
Final Exit
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Derek Humphry 6
British-born American euthanasia activist and writer 1930Related quotes
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
"O Russet Witch!"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Context: Merlin went up-stairs very quietly at nine o'clock. When he was in his room and had closed the door tight he stood by it for a moment, his thin limbs trembling. He knew now that he had always been a fool.
"O Russet Witch!"
But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
A poem Ellen reads at the end of the first season of "Ellen". Longer version appears in her book, "My Point... And I Do Have One".