Time Quote by Henri Barbusse

“...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Now they were old. Old enough. A viable, die-able age.”

— Arundhati Roy

“What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.”

— Courtney Milan

“I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.”

— Sara Baume

“Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?”

— Ray Bradbury

“As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If…

— Victor Hugo

“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles…

— Cecil Baldwin

“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought…

— George Orwell

“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is…

— Conn Iggulden

“Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.
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— Jarod Kintz

“The past is a black, heavy thing. It will quietly smother our spirits if we let it. You must make peace with it and…

— Sarah McCoy

“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