Lost souls Quote by Alan Furst

“As Erasmus, the great Renaissance thinker, reminds us, “The best hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”

— Daniel Goleman

“The students lurked on the edges of their teachers' lives for years, and brought bulletins from their own lives, which over time began to…

— Meg Wolitzer

“In my errant life I roamed to learn the secrets of women and men, of gods and dreams. I lived in wealth and poverty,…

— Roman Payne

“The only thing Luo was really good at was telling stories. A pleasing talent to be sure, but a marginal one, with little future…

— Dai Sijie

“In youth we learn; in age we understand. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“To-day we would pass through the scenes of our youth like travellers. We are burnt up by hard facts; like tradesmen we understand distinctions,…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Though we could always explain that our life was not as glamorous as it might seem in the telling, we did come to realize…

— Megan Rich

“In my errant life I roamed To learn the secrets of women and men, Of gods and dreams. I've known all the countries of…

— Roman Payne

“Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able…

— Michel Houellebecq

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“But after dark all that is most satisfactory in French life swims back into the picture—the sprightly tarts, the men arguing with a hundred…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For who brooded over the meaninglessness of life anymore? Teenagers. They were the only ones who were preoccupied with existential issues, and as a…

— Knausgaard