Doomed Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to…

— Michel Quoist

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

— Anonymous

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

“Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life…

— George Borrow

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown…

— John Williams

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can…

— Samuel Johnson

“How can a true man find contentment in growing old while leading a leisurely and mediocre life?”

— Heo Gyun

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

— Honore de Balzac