Disappointment Quote by Fanny Burney

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance;…

— Hermann Hesse

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

— Johan Huizinga

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.”

— Hermann Hesse

“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which I enjoyed…

— Hermann Hesse

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is…

— Wendell Berry

We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then…

— Veronica Franco

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

“When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner,…

— Erik Pevernagie

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower,…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not of the dangers lurking beneath those pleasures,…

— Susanna Rowson