„At the age of thirty, or thereabouts, this young Nobleman had not only had every experience that life has to offer, but had seen the worthlessness of them all.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.“
— Roald Dahl
„Among all my patients in the second half of life—that is to say, over thirty-five—there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.“
— C.G. Jung
„All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.“
— Roald Dahl
„We just had a near-life experience!“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Thirty-one.Not old.Not young.But a viable die-able age.“
— Arundhati Roy
„Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.“
— Jane Austen