Quote by John Steinbeck

“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts…

— John Steinbeck

“When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus,…

— Paul Bowles

“Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus. It would get richer and…

— Paul Bowles

“While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.”

— John Williams

“Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning.”

— Steve Erickson

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

“The things that had seemed important to a twenty-five-year-old weren’t important to a thirty-year-old. Now, life had meaning.”

— Heather Burch

“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

“In the end he said, I am Mercier, alone, ill, in the cold, the wet, old, half mad, no way on, no way back.…

— Samuel Beckett

“And you? What brings you here? I shrugged my shoulders. No idea? Hm, you’re still young. Eighteen? I froze. Nineteen? Twenty? Incredible, so young.…

— Anonymous

“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared…

— John Williams

“...it occurred to me that I was stuck somewhere in between, with neither the blind confidence of youth that everything would turn out as…

— Neve Maslakovic