Burden Quote by D.H. Lawrence

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“She wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she didn't have…

— Jenny Downham

“Still, he could see by the way she carried herself that she'd truly come of age and was at peace with the world. That…

— Steven A. McKay

“She felt herself age suddenly, but also knew what she now desired: to reconcile and grow old in peace, and have the wit to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“...And there it went, the burden of her lifetime, taken.”

— Ann Patchett

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went.…

— Robert Harris

“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their…

— Simon Van Booy

“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“In the past, she could never count on him, and now she was old enough to know better than to need anyone.”

— Zøe Haslie