“For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning love”

“Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal”

“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”

“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members”

“Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face”

“We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death”