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“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door")”
― Margaret Oliphant, The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies

“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...]

My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than in the life existential. We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins, or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“Tak dÅ‚ugo byliÅ›cie antykonformistami, aż wreszcie upadÅ‚y ostatnie normy, przeciw którym można siÄ™ byÅ‚o jeszcze buntować. Dla mnie nie zostawiliÅ›cie już nic, nic! Brak norm staÅ‚ siÄ™ waszą normÄ…. A ja mogÄ™ siÄ™ buntować tylko przeciw wam, czyli przeciwko waszemu rozpasaniu.”
― SÅ‚awomir Mrożek, Tango

“Sorry to tell you, but that's a very old chestnut. My mother used to say when God slams a door on you, he opens a window.'

Tig gave this two seconds of respectful consideration before rejecting it. 'No, that's not the same. I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.'

'Without a roof over your head, it kind of feels like you might die.'

'Yeah, but you might not. For sure you won't find your way out of the mess if you keep picking up bricks and stuffing them in your pockets. What you have to do is look for blue sky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

“Besides,â€� continued Julian, ‘you can slam down a phone like that. You can’t slam down a mobile. Imagine, a whole generation who’ll never know the joy of slamming down a phone.”
― Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project

“Muista poika, että tämän päivän kapinallinen on huomispäivän pieru”
― Mauri Kunnas, Nyrok city kokoelma

“I wanted to ask which war---the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something.”
― John Christopher, When the Tripods Came

“In short, millennials have been dealt a bad hand in their career, social, and romantic lives—some even in their family. In the karma points of the world, millennials are of the lowest caste so far. As a result, they are treated with disdain, contempt, and disrespect. Most of the time, they don’t fight back, usually in danger of losing their financial stability.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“Amazed Generation! Found Generation!
Diamond Generation! Brainwashed
Generation! Amnesiac
T.V. Bureaucracy Voidoids!
New Wave Punk Generation!
Neutron Bomb blast Babies!
Apocalypse Spermatozoa!
Did you grow up imbibing
Microchip sex waters?
Will you marry me in the
next Millennium?
Must I wait for the Great Year?

- Listening to Susan Sontag”
― Allen Ginsberg, Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems

“I'm fifty; all I know is that people nineteen years old will do anything, and that the only thing which makes the adult world at all safe from them is the fact that they are so preconceived of success that the simple desire and will are the finished accomplishment, that they pay no attention to mere dull mechanical details.”
― William Faulkner, Knight's Gambit

“This is what you get. To work in a nice place with a few interesting people, to have friends with whom to discuss life and ideas. To attend the theatre, to hear live music, to arrange the use of the studio room on Monday nights for the local philosophy reading group. Oh, Kierkegaard, that'll be interesting. To exercise once again, for a little time, who knows how long, the power to charm and fascinate, to be the object of an intense and searching desire. And to feel inside herself the reciprocating force of desire, this is what she gets, a life of her own.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.”
― Susan Richards Shreve, You Are the Love of My Life

“In order to live on this Earth together in harmony, humanity must make certain compromises to relate to each other. Everyone must make the necessary adaptations at some point in their lives—as children, they must adapt to their guardians; as adults, to their authorities and governments; and as elderly persons, to their caretakers. Those at the top now may not be there one day, and those at the bottom now could eventually rise to the top. Life is a cycle.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“But a generation that knows only how to travel â€� can they teach a generation how to arrive?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

“Grrandpère Blançard used to lose his brains and his body; Julius was determined never to lose anything at all.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“As for power, they have very little of that, having little money. Before they were born, it was pretty much unheard of for a generation to make less than their parents, and as such, their expectant parents, having achieved quite a lot for their own, showered them with gifts and praise, hoping to one day take part in the economic windfall that the special millennials were certain to achieve. Now that they have fallen short of the bar of success set by their parents, they’re demoted in the power hierarchy and considered economic untouchables.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“The first and foremost easiest slip-up to get to a millennial’s bad side is power-tripping them. This is a generation that has seen a lot of B.S. in their lives, and nothing you do to hide yours will escape their sensitive lie detectors.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“The differences of the generations may be unsettling or overwhelming now, but rest assured that history merely repeats itself, and that everything is in order.
The millennial hatred phenomenon is merely a representation of a common pattern in human life of favoring, disliking, detesting, accepting, and then finally surrendering to a new generation. It’s happened over history and will happen again.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere.”
― Hani Selim, Osama's Jihad

“I have interviewed more than three hundred Chinese women, exploring the ways in which their lives and loves have been defined largely by external forces. It didn’t take long to notice a clear pattern in how these forces changed according to their age â€� women from my grandparentsâ€� generation were often forced into arranged marriages by their parents, while it was political turmoil that shaped the love lives of my parentsâ€� generation. As for women of my own generation, money seemed to be the main driving force behind their search for a husband.”
― Xinran, The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China

“This generation possessed freedom and material wealth their elders could only dream of, and they looked for the miracle of love in the void between Chinese and Western culture. They created idealised versions of themselves on the internet, and pushed the boundaries of what they thought love could be. But as this generation grew accustomed to the loneliness of living without brothers and sisters, the family could no longer be considered the backbone of Chinese culture.”
― Xinran, The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China

“Hannah had no ear for music, she thought, pulling out one of the combs. Of course, no one liked that jazz music, but Hannah ought to know enough to get some good orchestra. Jazz was terrible. Even a radio play was better than that awful boom-boom.”
― Samuel M. Steward, Angels on the Bough

“What do you glean from these intergenerational (older and younger) relationships?”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“The younger generation should always learn from the older â€� even if only from their mistakes.”
― George Hammond

“His two young mechanics lived in a completely different world, it seemed to him. This was not the world that he and Mma Ramotswe inhabited - a world in which people went about their business in an orderly way, drank tea at regular intervals, and retired to bed before nine-thirty at night.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company

“A generation has more in common, after all, than a nation, than a profession.”
― Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years

“Your goal [...] is tp be less a product of the times and to gain the ability to transform your relationship to your generation. A key way of doing this is through active associations with people of different generations. If you are younger, you try to interact more with those of older generations. Some of them, who seem to have a spirit you can identify with, you can try to cultivate as mentors and role models. Others you relate to as you would your peers- not feeling superior or inferior but paying deep attention to their values, ideas, and perspectives, helping to widen your own.”
― Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

“To shatter the chains of the past, grant your children the sacred space to speak their truths, even when those truths wound. For in that vulnerability lies the power to rewrite the narrative, a balm for ancestral sorrows.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“When the son is looking for something on the Internet, he calls it "googling", but when his dad does the same thing he says: "I'll look that up on Google." When they disagree about something, the father says: "Well, it must be right, because I read it on Google!" and the son exclaims: "You don't actually read things on Google, Dad, you search for them there...”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People