winter of life

And I began to feel in the boys a curious, wary, bewildered despair, as though they were now settling in for the long, hard winter of life.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

We do not have a springtime and a summer and an autumn and a winter of life every year.

From Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks by B. J. (Bert Joseph) Griswold

We are both in the winter of life, time's uses are almost ended, and all that is blissful now are the memories of the past.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks

Doubtless there are many workmen who follow a more rational course, who are reaping and storing the harvest for the comfort and security of themselves and their families during the winter of life.

From Creating Capital Money-making as an aim in business by Frederick L. (Frederic Lockwood) Lipman

One can see in them the friendship and sentiments of the winter of life.

From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach