Disaster Quote by Sholem Asch

“The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.”

— Joel T. McGrath

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

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no…

— George Eliot

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

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

— James Crumley

Youth is a mortal wound.

— Katherine Paterson

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the…

— Laura van den Berg

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for…

— Anonymous

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

— Ellis Peters

Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not…

— Robert Kennedy

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it…

— Thomas Carlyle