There is not a more repulsive spectacle than an old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
— Tholuck
Tholuck.
The point
Nothing is sadder than an old man still clinging to a world that has already left him behind.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than an old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
— Tholuck
Tholuck.
Nothing is sadder than an old man still clinging to a world that has already left him behind.
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