Adult Mortality

Famous quotes containing the words adult and/or mortality:

    “And I, whose childhood
    Is a forgotten boredom,
    Feel like a child
    Who comes on a scene
    Of adult reconciling,
    And can understand nothing
    But the unusual laughter,
    And starts to be happy.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
    —William Dean Howells (1837–1920)