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“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.”

Ifs Years Made Age Found Views Wife Progress Youth Ten Misery Drinking Old Age Miserable Tea Beer Makers Laziness Fifteen Destroyers Fifteen Years Tea Drinking

Author:William Cobbett

“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

“The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.”

Joy Air Worst Youth Misery Breathe Petty Framed

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”

Humans Dies Fall Human Beings Imagine Youth Misery Privilege Painful Enjoyment Perpetual Solitary Decay Sincerely Deliverance Insufferable

Author:James Sharp

“No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”

World Has Beens Life Is Born Fate Generations Youth Misery Oppression Around The World Destined Oblivion Brutality Early Death

Author:Bob Avakian

“I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.”

Matter Used Wonder Youth Equal Misery British Nine Doctrine Used To Be Revolt Morbid Submerged Nothing Matters

Author:Winston Churchill

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”

Inspirational Happiness Success Young Fun Sadness Youth Optimism Sight Misery Pessimism Optimist Pessimist Optimism In Life Optimism And Pessimism Optimists And Pessimists

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.”

Firsts I Can Found Half Youth Solitude First Time Misery Manhood Dreary Found You

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)