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“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.”

Life Age Force Growth Tree Youth Flower Birth Roots Green Rose Dumb Rebirth Fever Blast Crooked Destroyers Fuse

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.”

Ifs Life Giving Has Beens Age Lasts Life Is Desire Left Wish Youth Blessing Surprise Enjoyment Midst More Time Life Is Short Fever Tedious Future Time

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”

Men Love Life Young Girl Literature Youth Promise Young Man

Book:The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

“The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.”

Life Ideas Life Is Youth Tears Majority Entertainment Riches Incline

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.”

Way Life Youth Strategy Campaigns

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.”

Ifs Men Life Giving Remember Asks Youth Longing Endure Delight Cease Vain Long Life

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.”

Life Should Years Use Age Youth Should Have Old Age Vigor

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!”

Life Youth Understood Getting Old

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan