Generations Quote by Clare B. Dunkle

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

— Darren Shan

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new…

— Nicholas Sparks

Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb…

— Marcel Proust

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence.…

— May Sinclair

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

— Zora Neale Hurston

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

— Edith Wharton

But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death…

— Brom

“Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse…

— H.G. Wells

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he…

— Carson McCullers

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

— Thomas Pynchon

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine…

— Robert Cormier