Age Quote by Chris Cleave

“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He…

— Henning Mankell

“No one had asked about his life, the years aboard ship. As a child she had been fascinated by the way he would come…

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“It shocked me to realize that he suddenly seemed old -- so frail that the slightest push would have sent him tumbling. The body…

— Yōko Ogawa

“He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned…

— Ken Follett

“He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical strength, his…

— Howard Fast

“He slowed his pace a little. He was thirty and there was grey in his hair, yet he had a queer feeling that he…

— George Orwell

“He's old now. He goes about gathering up the women who loved him and getting a kick out of their consternation and vague distress.…

— Enid Bagnold

“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

“He lay on the bed and he felt he might never rise from it. He lay in an enormous torpor. The world was too…

— William Gay

“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

“He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.”

— Umberto Eco

“He stood erect - as a peg-top does as long as the whip keeps lashing it. He was modest - thanks to a robust…

— Dag Hammarskjöld