Quote by Douglas Adams

“They looked neither older nor younger now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Avian was home and made me feel secure and right. Everything felt okay when I was with Avian. But at the same time, he…

— Keary Taylor

“Ted had the uneasy sense that the child was spinning them out as a way of filling the time, distracting them both from whatever…

— Jennifer Egan

“As a boy, it occurred to me, all people over 40 had seemed to me just worn-out old wrecks, so old that there was…

— George Orwell

“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”

— Michael Morpurgo

“It shocked me to realize that he suddenly seemed old -- so frail that the slightest push would have sent him tumbling. The body…

— Yōko Ogawa

“They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty…

— George Orwell

“Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.”

— Chaim Potok

“Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.”

— Robert Lowell

“They had each survived into adulthood by proceeding warily, yet now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through…

— Thomas Mullen

“He had known it often enough. A delightful child, even a delightful early adolescent, interested in everything, alive,affectionate, would turn into a thick, heavy,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone…

— Michael Thomas Ford