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“A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.”

Feelings Dream Youth Late Too Late

Book:The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel

Source: The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel

“To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.”

Men Dream Happens Youth Worldly

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

“To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.”

“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.”

Dream Law Youth Fool Becoming My Friends Deeds Finance Realms Heroic Engineering Librarian Hardy Heroic Deeds

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”

Dream Wonder Youth Forgotten Dust Once Upon A Time Patronizing Naivete Sad Day

Book:Chronicles of the Black Company

Source: Chronicles of the Black Company

“There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

Source: This Side of Paradise

“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”

People Thinking Knows Dream Hands Moving Young Behinds Car Youth Habit Get Away Frozen Coming Back Behind You Disposable Speeding Speeding Cars

Author:Margaret Atwood

“2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.”

Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other, and almost a part of the world.”

World Way Feelings Dream Joy Voice Memories Youth Blue Filled Hearing Nostalgia Smoke Floating Relaxed

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”

Dream Age Faces Loses Youth Birthday 60th Birthday

Book:In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances

Source: In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances

“She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.”

Long Dream Reality Voice Memories Novel Saws Figures Youth Becoming Remembered Gallery Heroines Lyrical Enchanted Envied Legion Sisterly

Book:Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life

Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life

“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.”

World Made Dream Might Passion Memories Sleep Sin White Brain Youth Red Shame Filled Rose Mere Terror Gray Cheeks Stains Boyhood

Author:Oscar Wilde

“A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.”

Years May Dream Age Song Waiting Hours Failing Youth Tears Eternal Messages Fruit Track Gates Shore Fades Decay Again And Again Worn Ache Voyages Unborn Worn Out

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”

Feels Dream Bigs Stars Youth Diamond

Book:The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

“I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable." "How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.”

Dream Eye Father Sides Youth Sweet Shops Cows Her Eyes Enjoyable Beef Pork Annabelle

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years — each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.”

Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

“Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.”

Should Dream Mother Opportunity Given Wish Path Advice Youth Bed Should Have Careful Hospitals Be Careful Vague Slides Quip Careful What You Wish For

Author:Kristin Hannah

“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