Action Quote by Andre Maurois

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown…

— Andre Maurois

“There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate…

— Anna Freud

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of…

— Margery Allingham

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

— Cyril Connolly

“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass the reverential…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up”

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your…

— Micere Mugo

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be…

— Jose Mujica

Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This,…

— Josiah Johnson Hawes

“How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope…

— Barbara Pym

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in…

— Ellen Glasgow