Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

And what would it be to grow old? For, after a certain distance, every step we take in life we find the ice growing thinner below our feet, and all around us and behind us we see our contemporaries going through.


Virginibus Puerisque (1881)


And what would it be to grow old? For, after a certain distance, every step we take in life we find the ice growing thinner below our feet, and all...

And what would it be to grow old? For, after a certain distance, every step we take in life we find the ice growing thinner below our feet, and all...

And what would it be to grow old? For, after a certain distance, every step we take in life we find the ice growing thinner below our feet, and all...

And what would it be to grow old? For, after a certain distance, every step we take in life we find the ice growing thinner below our feet, and all...