Tag: contentment

The final struggle of life before it slips away, through an intermezzo of agony, from the one whose body it energised, seems to carry no hint of a miracle. It's an image you'd want to turn away from until the grotesque faces of the crushing moment fade. It's a passing—rarely gentle—into the rest that follows life's final flutter of wings.

In the late 1980s, Donald Trump was asked how much money it would take to make him happy. His answer? “Ten per cent more.”