“Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; and the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, renewed his prime and regained his boyhood in the genial breeze of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!” IfsMenYearsMaySoulAgeImpossibleYouthSpringPrivilegeHeavyOur TimeSunshinePrimeWornPastorBreezeAlasSpringtimeMansionsMossBoyhood Book:Tales and sketches Source: Tales and sketches
“I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).” IfsAmericaYoungClassYouthConversationHeavySillyDullFoolishnessPrivilegedYoung Ladies Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.” GrowsGrowing UpTreeYouthPaperDown AndHeavySpreadSeedsFlexibleNotebookSaplings Author:Jill McCorkle
“Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.” IfsSufferingWaterFateYouthPlanetsReaderHeavyIdiotGentleExceptionMetalsFountainWretchedHideousPoisonousFountain Of Youth Author:William S. Burroughs
“I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.” WorldWantFeelsBookUsedJoyLyingDesireLostWaitingPowerfulYouthQuietBreathsHeavyUrgesImpatienceRaptureBack AgainLumpsNamelessEagerness Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel