Cases Quote by Julian Barnes

Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described…

— Doris Lessing

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

— Henri Matisse

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being…

— Doris Lessing

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights…

— Wyndham Lewis

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

— Frederick Lenz

It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.

— John Rocha

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

— Vladimir Nabokov

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

— Henry David Thoreau

I've always enjoyed seeing the world through the eyes of my grandchildren.

— Neil Sedaka

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

— John Oates