The Principles of Psychology - Vol. I. Quotes

“The same space of time seems shorter as we grow older..... In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those of a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long drawn out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine that we hardly note at all, the days and weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse.”
― William James, The Principles of Psychology - Vol. I.