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Lean on Me
youtube.comAt my age, you’re either alone or dead. Either way, you get used to it.”
Mick Herron • Slow Horses
A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. The last line is 🔥
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the... See more
Nick Cave On Singing With Johnny Cash And The Joyful, Uplifting Vibe Of His New Album, ‘Wild God’
youtube.comTolstoy’s downward spiral came later in life than Mill’s—he was pushing fifty—and it went deeper. “My life came to a standstill,” he writes, “I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep and I could not help breathing, eating, drinking and sleeping; but there was no life in me because I had no desires whose gratification I would have deemed it reasonable
... See moreKieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book
Leonard Cohen • Book of Longing
His eyes, staring up into the abyss, had gone flat like deflated balloons. If a lover’s eyes are a clear mountain lake, Byron’s were a stagnant pond. His mouth twisted open in a silent scream.