Relationship With Time Quote by Stephen R. Donaldson

“The disorientation of meeting one’s sagging contemporaries, memories of a younger face crashing into the reality of jowls, under-eye pouches, unexpected lines, and then…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant past.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not…

— Henry James

“We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.”

— Phyllis Theroux

“It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither…

— Grace Metalious

“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged”

— Virginia Woolf

“Their looks and personalities were still intact, but some thing had atrophied ever so slightly. Their faces bore the distinct wear of goals gone…

— Galt Niederhoffer

“They were all very much of a type, tall and narrow-faced, eyes pale blue and pale green and pale gray, their features sharp but…

— Katherine Addison

“They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...”

— Kate Morton

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

— Anna Katharine Green

“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent,…

— George Eliot

“They looked neither older nor younger now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne