“If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.” IfsMenLittlesTwoWholeFeelingsLightYouthFairsSightLaysDisappointmentSpreadChiefsDawnLife TimeRosy Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.” IfsMadeSaidWholeYouthCivilizationZoneCollapseAppointmentsEdificePerditionPortents Author:Guy Debord
“The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.” WayWholeFireProgressYouthUnhappyIdolatry Author:Nat Friedman
“In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.” WantWholeKidsPresidentInterestingAtheismYouthAtheistNervousTemplesElders Author:Richard P. Feynman
“The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.” TryingMeanWholeWishDyingYouthHappeningsProfessionMedicalFountainGetting OldGetting OlderLong LifeThrustMedical ProfessionFountain Of Youth Author:Woody Allen