“The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get running
It's the best years of your life they want to steal.”

“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy”

August Wilson Fences

“You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

“The potential sacrifices itself if you don't utilize it as you mature, and you just end up a 40 year old lost boy, which is a horrifying thing to behold. It's almost as if you're the living corpse of a child, because who wants a six year old 40-year-old? You're a little on the stale side by that point, and you're not the world's happiest individual. Your potential is going to disappear because you age anyways, so you might as well shape that potential in a particular direction and at least become something, no matter how limited, rather than nothing.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

“All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

“Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.”

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet