Age Quote by Anonymous

His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but…

— Jasper Fforde

“One important thing was not to forget what he hoped to achieve in life. Another important thing was not to confuse a romantic picture…

— Lydia Davis

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could…

— Thomas Wolfe

“His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep…

— Roger Housden

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting…

— Anonymous

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great…

— John Barrymore

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

— John Muir

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust…

— Robert Louis Stevenson