Best sorrow & youth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.”

Kind Able Mother Felt Doubt Wife Youth Source Bears Sorrow Tests Misery Hearing Faithful No Doubt Unhappiness Deceiving Polygamy Faithful Wife

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.”

Men Desire Youth Sorrow

Author:Louise Imogen Guiney

“Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.”

Knows Looks Joy Winning Know How Youth Flower Sorrow Taste Fame Twenties Praise Victim Caught Forty Gossip Caught Up Alas Concealed Advertisements Calumny Joys And Sorrows Whirlpools

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“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

“'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.”

Long Youth Sorrow Summer Rose Cheeks July

Author:George Edward Moore

“My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.”

Dream Joy Wish Brain Youth Sorrow Lays Ships Piano Intimate Sailor My Wish Impassioned

Book:An Artist's Journey: Lettres D'un Bachelier Es Musique, 1835-1841

Source: An Artist's Journey: Lettres D'un Bachelier Es Musique, 1835-1841

“. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.”

War Peace Youth Sorrow Anti War Antiwar Tribulation Aftermath

Author:Herbert Hoover

“If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.”

Ifs Heart Real Helping Problem Joy Teacher Share Youth Sorrow Solve Aspiration Guardian Joys And Sorrows

Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.”

Firsts Earth Influence Youth Sorrow Creatures Lakes Ecstasy Our Future Prospects

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.”

Has Beens Joy Spirit Principles Youth Source Sorrow Battle Flesh Anguish Incessant Joys And Sorrows

Book:The last temptation of Christ

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“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

“Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.”

Firsts Mean Lasts Beautiful Forever Worst Youth Sorrow Happenings First Time Very Beautiful Worst Times

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.”

Ifs Care Age Spirit Childhood Youth Sorrow Old Age Fearful Womanhood Anticipate Old Woman

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.”

Today Sea Youth Tomorrow Sorrow Ocean Spring Heavy Sand Frail Today And Tomorrow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“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

“Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?”

People Knows Seems Young Hours Wonder Honesty Youth Ought Periods Sorrow Golden Permanent One Time Accuracy Setback Golden Hour

Author:Vera Brittain

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.”

Men War Dies Fighting Military Youth Inspirational Life Sorrow Triumph Tribulation Aftermath Older Man

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."”

Want Today Mistake Missing Youth Sorrow Waste Singing Aging Looking Back Same Mistakes

Book:The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“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.”

“I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.”

Source: The Consolation of Philosophy

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