“To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.” IfsYearsKindSeemsYoungYouthPainfulTreatmentDelirium Book:An Anthology Source: An Anthology
“Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.” PersonsHouseYouthPainfulFoolishnessObliged Author:Chanakya
“There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.” IfsFeelsYearsWellsHas BeensAgeLostCuttingYouthPeriodsQuietPainfulNervousSensitiveMatureReposeNervous SystemTolerableSteadiness Author:William Hazlitt
“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!” HumansDiesFallHuman BeingsImagineYouthMiseryPrivilegePainfulEnjoymentPerpetualSolitaryDecaySincerelyDeliveranceInsufferable Author:James Sharp
“If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.” IfsThinkingMayDoneWholeShowsYouthDutyTestsIllPainfulSpreadPerformingAbandonRulersSolidarityAssociatesShrinksChamberRevoltSuitable Author:Bertrand Russell
“I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.” ThinkingKindDifferentStageYouthLatePainfulDifferent KindsLife ExperienceAgonyExuberanceMidlifeStages Of Life Author:Edward Hirsch