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“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.”

“Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.”

Knows Grief Youth Suicide Remedy

Book:Pavements at Anderby: tales of

Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of

“In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.”

Grief Youth Remains Winter Miserable Pool Resisting Overflow Evaporation

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”

Thinking Giving Whole Seems Lying Universe Ability Pleasure Grief Secret Worry Youth Sorrow Treasure Suits Charm Suits You

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”

Way Helping Past Loses Love Is Grief Youth Tears Thousand Ten Waste Yesterday Neglect Loyal Loyal Friend

Author:Euripides

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

Reality Grief Youth Sorrow Promise Offers Sad Thought Provoking Youth Life

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”

Men Feels Grief Taken Youth Discouraging Ominous

Book:Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play

“What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.”

Men Feels Humor Fighting Grows Effort Grief Conditions Youth Bounds Burden Strikes Shoulders Sparks Swings Manhood Woe Mirth Pendulums

Book:Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain

Source: Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain

“There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.”

Giving May Age Differences Grief Share Youth Sorrow Remains Burden Old Age Grieving

Book:The Trimmed Lamp

Source: The Trimmed Lamp

“The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.”

Hope Grief Boys Sadness Youth Expectations Yearning

Book:The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen

Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen

“Youth holds no society with grief.”

Time Grief Youth

Book:The Tragedies of Euripides

Source: The Tragedies of Euripides

“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.”

“In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears”

Age Grief Youth Tears

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux