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Your tears come easy, when you’re young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you’re old, and leaving it.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Moonstone (1868), First Period: The Loss of the Diamond (1848), Chapter XIXIn context
- Emotion
- Youth
The compensation of growing old, Peter Walsh thought, coming out of Regent’s Park, and holding his hat in hand, was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained⁠—at last!⁠—the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence,⁠—the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 5In context
- Experience
Oh, my childhood, days of my innocence! In this nursery I used to sleep; I used to look out from here into the orchard. Happiness used to wake with me every morning, and then it was just as it is now; nothing has changed.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act One, spoken by LubovIn context
- Happiness
- Youth
My dear, my gentle, beautiful orchard! My life, my youth, my happiness, good-bye! Good-bye!
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Four, spoken by LubovIn context
- Happiness
- Youth
Growing up brought responsibilities, he found. Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought. Nature’s logic was too horrid for him to care for. That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter IIIn context
- Maturity
- Nature
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter IIIn context
- Maturity
- Youth
There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing⁠—ever more quickly⁠—and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921–2021Said in a letter to The Oldie magazine after being voted “Consort of the Year”, as quoted in “Prince Philip voted ‘Consort of the Year’”, BBC News (11 February 2011).
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 12:1 (KJV)In context
- God
- Youth
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)In context
- Maturity
- Youth