Disappointment Quote by Joan D. Vinge

“The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared.”

— Ivan Turgenev

“He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.”

— Ken Follett

“Sometimes it seemed as if he'd always been very old. People said that time lasted for ever when you were young. That was lies.…

— Rupert Thomson

“He was close enough that Shadow could see his face: old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s vinegar and…

— Neil Gaiman

“Time was of no consequence and I just hoped that eternity would start now. The person I used to be had suddenly ceased to…

— Amira Aly

“Time oozed away, flowing like lava erupting lazily from a vent, slowly and impossible to stop, covering everything into oblivion under its dark layer…

— Massimo Marino

“The banquet of eternal glory is made out of the ingredients of time.”

— Arnold Albert van Ruler

“after all had eaten, then Geraint,   For now the wine made summer in his veins,   Let his eye rove in following, or rest   On…

— Baron Alfred Tennyson

“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time ago that…

— Gauri Sharma

“I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few…

— Elif Batuman

“There was no answer. I looked up. Epsilon’s light shone out onto a picture on the wall. A round picture in a square frame.…

— Christine Morton-Shaw

“But most of all, as summer slanted to an end, he was learning to love idleness, idleness no longer as stretches of freedom reclaimed…

— J.M. Coetzee