“Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run”
Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) American singer, guitarist and songwriter
“Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run”
Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) American singer, guitarist and songwriter
“Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"
“I suspect he was never young, was just born straight forty years old.”
Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 31
“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
Source: Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets
“We’re getting old,” he said.
“No,” said Paula Zarte. “You are. I’m just not as young as I was.”
Jon Courtenay Grimwood (1953) British writer
Source: Stamping Butterflies (2004), Chapter 48 (p. 296)
Philip Pullman book Northern Lights
The Librarian to the Master, in Ch. 2 : The Idea of North
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)
“The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.”
Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) American writer, journalist
“The Autumn Land” (p. 250); originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1971
Short Fiction, Skirmish (1977)