joanna bujes wrote:
>
> Jon wrote...
>
> "The Buddha remarked 25 centuries ago or so that old age is one of the 4
> principal forms of suffering in life (the others being birth, illness,
> and death), and that the only real escape from them is realizing that
> there is no escape from reality."
>
> "We must endure our going forth, even as our coming hither."
>
> King Lear
>
On the other hand,
"Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares And take the winds of march with beauty."*
Winter's Tale-
or
". . . .Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love."
As You Like It
Carrol
*Quoted from memory