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

One finds in them the friendship and feelings of that winter of life.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

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

This is surely a grand provision for old age, a life insurance worthy of the name, a home for the winter of life, and a blessed assurance with regard to one's eternity.

From The Shepherd Psalm A Meditation by William Evans

Could he meet the winter of life as well as the summer?

From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe