Old man Quote by Dmitry Glukhovsky

“One day this station will burn to the ground,’ Artyom thought aloud, looking despondently at the hall. ‘In four hundred and twenty days,’ his…

— Dmitry Glukhovsky

“He was surprised, as always, to witness a new degradation, to find another display of wretchedness original enough to bring tears to his eyes.…

— Nathan Englander

“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world…

— Albert Camus

“That time is gone when men of insight went apart With a thousand words in the mouth but their lips silent.”

— Hafez (Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī

“As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.”

— John Aubrey

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices A glance from him drives men to their knees His sigh brings cities…

— S.U. Pacat

“That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.”

— Colson Whitehead

“O my good lord, the world is but a word: Were it all yours to give it in a breath, How quickly were it…

— William Shakespeare

“Man is a god in ruins.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“why would he try to ruin something so beautiful? What is the world he was trying, and failing to create? What is the world…

— Kristin Cashore

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne