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  1. Hanif Kureishi _ The Nothing

    Old age is the new childhood.
    book-quoteold-age

  2. Glen Cook _ The Black Company

    One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.
    book-quoteold-agefolly

  3. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    song of elli {old age}"What is plucked will grow again,What is slain lives on,What is stolen will remainWhat is gone is gone...What is sea-born dies on land,Soft is trod upon.What is given burns the hand -What is gone is gone...Here is there, and high is low;All may be undone.What is true, no two men know -What is gone is gone...Who has choices need not choose.We must, who have none.We can love but what we lose -What is gone is gone."
    book-quoteold-agethe-last-unicornpeter-s-beagle

  4. Simone de Beauvoir _ La Vieillesse

    I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
    book-quotelifeold-ageinifinity

  5. Adolfo Bioy Casares _ Diary of the War of the Pig

    Creyó por primera vez entender por qué se decía que la vida es sueño: si uno vive bastante, los hechos de su vida, como los de un sueño, su vuelven incomunicables porque a nadie interesan.
    book-quoteold-age

  6. Gregory Maguire _ A Lion Among Men

    I was quite a looker in my time," she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?"Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?
    book-quoteold-age

  7. Ursula K. Le Guin

    Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters.
    travelwisdomold-ageexperienced

  8. Dan Simmons _ Drood

    The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and sent over–and while Father was explaining to her the enjoyment he was having in writing this Drood book for serialisation, this upstart of a girl had the temerity to ask, 'But suppose you died before all the book was written?' {...} He spoke very softly in his kindest voice and said to her, 'One can only work on, you know--work while it is day.
    book-quotewritingdeathwork

  9. Dan Simmons _ Drood

    When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation?Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute?
    book-quotelifewritingdeath

  10. Nicholas Sparks _ The Notebook

    Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
    book-quotelifejudgementold-age

  11. Yann Martel _ Beatrice and Virgil

    Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
    book-quoterudenessold-agestudy-in-character

  12. Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed

    They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
    book-quoteteenagersold-age
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