Age Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating,…

— Joseph Conrad

“To the young among his admirers, he was the fresh face of an emerging, better world; to the old, a balm for the pain…

— Stuart Isacoff

“My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears…

— Susan Choi

“For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and equal manhood…

— H.G. Wells

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's…

— Oscar Wilde

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This was a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority…

— wildbow

“Youth, like a flame, burned ever in his breast, and to youth he turned, to the round little limbs, so reckless, that wanted care,…

— John Galsworthy