Person's Character Quote by Junot Díaz

“We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. Sheltered children become reckless. Starving children become ambitious.”

— A.G. Riddle

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

“We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame…

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“Being doomed doesn't take away from the dignity of the effort, though.”

— Daniel Abraham

“youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy”

— Giacomo Casanova

“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at the end…

— Marcel Proust

“Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.”

— Samuel Butler

“Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible. Surely, some of us had that bravado. But there was also the dark inner…

— David Levithan

“Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from…

— Alain de Botton

“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.”

— Yeo-tze

“The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end…

— Anonymous

“If you misuse your youth, you get misery when you are old.”

— Amit Kalantri