James Hilton Quotes

I can fall asleep on a dime.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

I tend to sleep a lot.

It's really easy to want to just sleep all day.

I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.