Old Things Quotes
73 quotes by 70 authors
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Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it?…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.
— Josh Lanyon
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The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something…
— Donald Miller
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More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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library is a beautiful old thing
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.
— Kami Garcia
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nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never.…
— Charles Bukowski
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She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together…
— Gregory Maguire
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Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life…
— Thomas Merton
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
— Allen Ginsberg
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The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves,…
— H P Lovecraft
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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is…
— Lauren Oliver
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Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing...
— Tim Burton
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It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What are they going…
— Darynda Jones
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
— Tacitus
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The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
— William J. Clinton
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I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
— Steve Lacy
Who Wrote These Old Things Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 73 Old Things Quotes, led by these top contributors: