"Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again."
"Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them."
"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
"Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal."
"Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence."
"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."
"If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo..."
"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."
"In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss."