Getting old Quote by Christopher Isherwood

“Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Now his children are getting old too, like him, and they have children and nobody wants the old man any more and they are…

— Betty Smith

“Maybe George was fooling himself. Maybe old people always fooled themselves, pretending that the world was going to hell because it was easier than…

— Mark Haddon

“Taking a deep breath, George turned around taking in the unspectacular panorama. A tear moved slowly down his cheek. To George this was where…

— Emily Organ

“We have to just keep living. We'll keep going. Uncle Johnny? You and me will keep going - through the long procession of days…

— Robert Icke

“Charley thought of her father. He'd always told her she should never make assumptions about other people's time or their money, and that's the…

— Natalie Baszile

“Kenny rested his hand on my leg, patting it delicately. His thoughts staying just that, thoughts, as we drove in silence, back to my…

— Holly Hood

“Life goes quickly, doesn't it, Charley?" "Yeah," I mumbled. "It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of…

— Mitch Albom

“All these old men want it to be like it was when they were young. But it'll never be like that again, and they'll…

— Omar El Akkad

“Also: people pretended not to want what they wanted. Pretending tried to hide the will. That was the secret of adult life, the undisclosed…

— Kevin Canty

“Look, I know Mom talks about the big picture. She wants you to remember that you'll find new friends, that life is always changing,…

— Rebecca Stead

“The years fell away from him till, in an instant, from being a rather poorly preserved, liverish greybeard of sixty-five or so, he became…

— P.G. Wodehouse