Adult life Quote by John Burnham Schwartz

“I am not disappointed by my old age. There are still stories to tell, paths to walk, and fire within that refuses to diminish.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“But something happened at 21, something wonderful, something amazing.  I feel in love for the first time in my life…real love.  The love that…

— Katherine Childress

“What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times over. In…

— Ashley Mae Hoiland

“But that age … exerts on us An almost terrible charm, Like the memory of things seen And a life lived in dreams.”

— Heinrich Heine

“I still pictured my interior just the same as any other sixteen-year-old girl's. Blood, guts and bones. A brain, and a functioning heart. Hopes…

— Debra Drize

“We are always young to know the story of our lives.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

“At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing--and possibly never would, which depressed me until I…

— Shirley Conran

“Now I know my father was a certified man of God, but at a fairly young age, I decided that when it came to…

— Susan Gregg Gilmore

“It is the curse of age, that all things are reflections of other things.”

— Neil Gaiman

“While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.”

— Camron Wright

“There was a time in my life when I believed I could have a place in the world, that I deserved bigger things than…

— Sarah Schmidt