Quote by Dennis Lehane

“We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we’re the last to know.”

— Dennis Lehane

“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

— Milan Kundera

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Everyone knew that once a woman was 30, she might as well be dead.”

— Alexandra Ripley

“As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.”

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to…

— David Dabydeen

“But that age … exerts on us An almost terrible charm, Like the memory of things seen And a life lived in dreams.”

— Heinrich Heine

“When you're young, you do think that things last forever,”

— Philip Pullman

“We age not by years, but by stories.”

— Maza-Dohta

“she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time…

— David Baldacci

“What you learn as you get older is that the world is old, and has been old for a long time.”

— John Crowley

“But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.”

— Iain M. Banks