Age of reason Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.”

— James Hilton

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided…

— Jane Austen

“The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end.…

— Alberto Moravia

“He had known it often enough. A delightful child, even a delightful early adolescent, interested in everything, alive,affectionate, would turn into a thick, heavy,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke

“He feels sorry for young people; their world is very much rougher than his had been. He is already at the age where he…

— T.K. Lamb

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's…

— Oscar Wilde

“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the…

— Paulette Jiles

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

— Jack London