‘Old age is only half as funny as one is inclined to think. It is indeed a major effort – the magnum opus in fact – to escape in time from the narrowness of its embrace and to liberate our mind to the vision of the immensity of the world, of which we form an infinitesimal part.

The gradual breaking down [Carl Jung]

[At the age of 85, the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung muses on the complex process of ageing: specifically, the challenge of dealing with both the physical and psychological changes that come with old age and with the loss of loved ones.]