Kenneth Burke Quote

Upon my enquiring as to what he feared most of the future, he answered: Destitution. Destitution of finances, destitution of mind, destitution of love. The inability to retort. The need of possessing one's opposite in years, sex, and texture of the skin; and the knowledge that by this need one has been made repugnant. The replacing of independence by solitude.

p. 8 - Towards a Better Life (1966)