After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.
One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.