Old man Quote by William Gay

“He was studying his grandmother, as if he was hungry too, but for something not food, hungry in a way that food could never…

— Cynthia Voigt

“He liked what he had too much.”

— Tim Relf

“He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.”

— Ken Follett

“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.”

— Herman Melville

“Juice is a poor man’s dessert.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Maybe you'll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose his hunger…

— John Steinbeck

“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”

— Shawn Davis

“Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse…

— Sarah Perry

“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only…

— William Faulkner