Age Quote by Jenny Erpenbeck

They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

— Harold Rosenberg

One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.

— Richard Leider

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking]…

— Benjamin Franklin

“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics and malnutrition.…

— Haruki Murakami

People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.

— Meg Wolitzer

It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and…

— Kiki Smith

“They were fed and clothed and taken care of until they were too old, and then they were kicked out. This ending was no…

— John Steinbeck

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

— Flora Thompson

The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young we'd be…

— Studs Terkel

The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So…

— Calvin Johnson

The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a…

— William H. Gass

People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight…

— Rachel Joyce