Life Quote by Paulette Jiles

“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

“Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of…

— Adam Smith

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down…

— Robert Musil

“His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her was no…

— Colm Tóibín

“And though he has watched a decent age pass by, a man will sometimes still desire the world.”

— Melinda Haynes

“It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with…

— Neel Burton

“He feels sorry for young people; their world is very much rougher than his had been. He is already at the age where he…

— T.K. Lamb

“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…

— Eleanor Catton

“He lost, for that moment, all the days and dogmas of his past; his concepts, his problems, his pain were wiped out; he knew…

— Ayn Rand

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don’t know our allotted span of days.”

— John Katzenbach