Fay: What will you do when you're old? Hal: I shall die. Fay: I see you're determined to run the gamut of all experience.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A character accepts death as the final experience in a full life.
- In plain terms
- Growing old ends in death which completes all life experiences.
- What can you take from it?
- Death is the inevitable conclusion of a full life.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is death truly the culmination of experience?
- How do people face the end?
Another view
The statement simplifies complex feelings about dying.
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