Middle east Quote by Daniel Silva

“Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn’t live long enough to know how right he was.”

— Joseph Wambaugh

“His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.”

— James Joyce

“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could…

— Frank Herbert

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did, had sensed the threat which my presence implied – the approaching…

— wilfred thesiger

“And it is not hard to guess what he, the descendant of serfs, risen to a position of such might, must have experienced. Confronting…

— Saul Bellow

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see…

— Richard Russo

“One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.”

— Richard Russo

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed,…

— Sherwood Smith

“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”

— Laurens van der Post