Dreams Quote by Joe Abercrombie

“That was the age of great men, doing what was right.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.”

— Thomas Hardy

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life…

— Joe Abercrombie

“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.”

— Victor Hugo

“The world was colossal, he said, we humans and our problems tiny and unimportant, no more than dust in the hands of time,”

— Andreas Steinhoffel

“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't…

— Ralph Moody

“Alas, poor gentleman, He look’d not like the ruins of his youth But like the ruins of those ruins.”

— John Ford

“He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.”

— Richard Russo