Quote by Brenna Yovanoff

“He first felt old when there was no one left alive who remembered what he was like when he was a baby.”

— Barry Smolin

“It was all he'd felt for too long to change now. Maybe it was too late for any other kind of life. This was…

— Virginia Brown

“He was already thirty, but yet to have a sense of himself as an adult. It just felt to him like he had spent…

— Haruki Murakami

“He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an…

— Bernard Malamud

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“She'd been prepared for him to say he was too old, she must put away that sweet but impractical idea, they would forget all…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.”

— Clare Vanderpool

“... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.”

— Philip Roth

“For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.”

— Craig Lancaster

“He hungered for a sense of progress, of new things approaching while old familiar ones receded. It seemed far too long since he’d had…

— Jennifer Egan

“That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing…

— Daniel Alarcón