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“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.”

Years Realizing Pleasure Morning Five Sadness Youth Wake Up Speed Passing Passings Five Years

Author:Derek Tangye

“I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?”

Heart Body Young Grows Sadness Youth Needed Aging Dumb Bells Foils

Author:William Butler Yeats

“People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.”

People Pain Joy Song Girl Results Sadness Youth Emotional California Sunshine Hymns California Girls

Author:Brian Wilson

“Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.”

Writing Process Hours Rooms Sadness Youth Sitting Coffee Ass Bitterness

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.”

Wanted Film Interest Struggle Sadness Subjects Youth Terrible Economics Overcoming University I Realized Glad Administration Odd Graduation Day Bologna Business Administration

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“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

“Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.”

World Made Lasts Beautiful Mother Turns Grows Loses Too Much Grace Sadness Figures Youth Ordinary Ears Decades Flawed Gave Up Wrinkles Collars Pears

Book:The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel