Age Quote by Grace King

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

— Walt Whitman

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

— Dan Fogelberg

“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we…

— Stephen King

This makes me sound like some new age, crystal-worshipping weirdo, but the woods behind my house really felt haunted by the past when I…

— Robert Eggers

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

— Ronald Blythe

“The old house had a thousand doors in it. All old houses do. You can see them if you know how to look: the…

— Michael Montoure

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

— Farley Mowat

In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly…

— Clarence John Laughlin

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses…

— Charles Dickens

“Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when…

— Siri Hustvedt

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

— Robin Hobb

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine