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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Out of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 2 “Self-Portrait” (1936), p. 5
- Maturity
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Women
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book VI: The Widow and the Wife, Chapter LVIn context
- Hope
- Youth
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Nature
- Youth
I feel that there is something in having passed one’s childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Letter to Marquis Childs quoted in St. Louis Post Dispatch (15 October 1930) and in the address “American Literature and the American Language” delivered at Washington University (9 June 1953) published in Washington University Studies, New Series …
- Youth
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)In context
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIn context
- Hope
We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Old Age
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus342–270 BC“Letter to Menoeceus”, as translated in Stoic and Epicurean (1910) by Robert Drew Hicks, p. 167
- Wisdom
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 1028 (Bartlett’s, 1892)
- Education
- Youth
Old men’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
Euripides481–407 BCAlcestis, ll. 669–672, Admetus (Bartlett’s, 1892)
- Life & Death
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don’t read and they rarely listen.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Younger Generation”
- Television
- Youth
The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), “O Russet Witch!”
Thirty⁠—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
Ian Fleming1908–1964
- Marriage