Happiness Quote by James Joyce

“An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and…

— James Joyce

“But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.”

— William Wordsworth

“While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.”

— John Williams

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“In the end he said, I am Mercier, alone, ill, in the cold, the wet, old, half mad, no way on, no way back.…

— Samuel Beckett

“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted…

— Ann Aguirre

“There were different ways of growing old, perhaps. Some withered first in body, others in mind, yet others in soul.”

— Elif Shafak

“But, indeed, dull, dreary adversity was now in store for him; and adversity, come it at eighteen or eighty, is the true old age…

— Herman Melville

“What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre of infinite…

— H.G. Wells

“He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out…

— William Sarabande

“Older, but no wiser. Alas, our dreams continue to haunt us.”

— Eliza Granville