Golden age Quote by James Joyce

“There comes a time, we know not when, that marks the destiny of men.”

— Joseph Addison Alexander

“He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.”

— George Orwell

“. . . there was no golden era when evildoers did their business and loudly proclaimed it a such.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life, for eternal us, is now; and now is much too…

— E.E. Cummings

“...there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

— Herman Melville

“Will this be the end of it?' 'There is never an end to such things,' he said quietly. 'But we are alive. And that…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Terrifying encounters with the end? I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five! The remote future will be time enough to…

— Philip Roth

“Though he is able to ride the winds of time, time is his enemy, eternity awaits us all.”

— Joaquin R. Larriba

“The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin…

— Matthew Arnold

“Man will change nothing of his final destiny, which is to return sooner or later to the unconscious and the formless.”

— Henry Miller

“Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.”

— Ogwo David Emenike

“...until men desire to control their own passions, evil has rooted itself in their hearts and darkness will rise again.”

— Jaime Buckley