Quote by Salman Rushdie

“I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we…

— Henri Barbusse

“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is…

— Conn Iggulden

“Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.”

— Robert Lowell

“Now they were old. Old enough. A viable, die-able age.”

— Arundhati Roy

“To the young, indeed, death is sometimes welcome, for the young can feel. They love and suffer, and it wrings them to see their…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.”

— Zachary Frerichs

“The very old do not succomb to disease-they implode their way into eternity. (How We Die)”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

“It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.”

— Gregory Maguire

“These old people. These human ruins.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.”

— Chaim Potok

“And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”

— Oscar Wilde