The middle years of life come on like thunder.
Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.
She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
In 2009, I was on top of the world. It was truly the greatest year of my life, both personally and professionally. In 2010, it was the furthest thing from that. It was the most terrible year of my life, both personally and professionally.
When I got sick, it threw everything off course.
I had been through a big roller-coaster through my whole career.
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
The lives of the young are so tumultuous.