What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

使人难以忍受老年之苦的不是一个人智力和身体的衰退，而是一个人记忆的负担。

-- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆