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“Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.”

Men Hard Strong Steps Youth Despair Threshold

Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides

“How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.”

Young Youth Sorrow Despair Foundation Towers Fleeting

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.”

I Can Wish Sleep Youth Despair Without Hope

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.”

“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.”

“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”

Men Desire Belief Difficult Youth Despair Spring Prepared Injustice Privilege Disappointment Optimistic Agony Outrage Hopefulness

Book:The Galantrys

Source: The Galantrys

“To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.”

Age Young Hope Youth Despair Old Age Escaping Be Young

Author:Jose Bergamin

“The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.”

Life Book Past Dies Fate Progress Youth Despair Crosses Down And Peril

Author:William Shakespeare

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”

“The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.”

“she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty”

Simple Loneliness Youth Drink Despair Consumed Simple Things

Author:Charles Bukowski

“It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.”

Ifs Youth Broken Promise Despair Leaving Passing Passings Deceived Passing By

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)