Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

These trembling hands no longer have the confidence it exuded a few years ago. Hope has been extinguished and uncertainty is what remains for the rest of my days now.

— Adhish Mazumder

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana