Quote by Barry Eisler

“I spur my horse past the ruined city; the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts: ancient battlements, high and low; old grave mounds,…

— Han-shan

“Ancient person, for whom I All the flattering youth defy, Long be it ere thou grow old, Aching, shaking, crazy, cold; But still continue…

— John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

“I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that…

— J. Nozipo Maraire

“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast, die young,…

— Robert B. Parker

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the…

— William Faulkner

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour,…

— Rob Shepherd

“I once visited a village of primitive people. At village, I felt time and life moved slower.”

— Toba Beta

“She thought of the city at night, of cities at night. Discarded constellations of old stars, fallen from the sky, rearranged on Earth in…

— Arundhati Roy

“He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh…

— Robert Goolrick

“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the…

— Missouri Williams