“I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing”

“What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

“I lead a simple life now, I am foolish, an old man in love, a dreamer who dreams of nothing but reading to Allie and holding her whenever I can. I am a sinner with many faults and a man who believes in magic, but I am too old to change and too old to care.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!”

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

“There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

“When I look at the number of things which a boy must now learn, or is encouraged to learn, and when I look at the questions in the examination papers, I am quite content that I was brought up in other days; and that if I did not learn much and was taught next to nothing, I have kept to old age the sense, whatever it may be, which came with me into the world.”

George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar

“A past may chase you if you try to escape from it… but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.”

Kazuya Minekura (1975) Japanese manga artist