I need absolutely to be alone.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely while considering what she is to us alone.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I love things that age well - things that don't date that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

No sex age or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

In passing we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.