Time Quote by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“The very old, he thought, make our past. Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real…

— P.D. James

“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”

— Chad Harbach

“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.”

— Dante Alighieri

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And…

— Wong Kar-Wai

“Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life…

— George Orwell

“He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten or twenty…

— Stephen King

“It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be,…

— Josephine Humphreys

“The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.”

— William Trevor

“I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.”

— Sherwood Smith

“To remain in the past means to be dead.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien