Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!
I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.
Old age is the verdict of life.
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
My journey as a player is complete.
We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
