Human condition Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not…

— Paullina Simons

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

“The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the…

— Homer

“It was not their first choice, and they did not know if they would ever feel at home there, but they could afford, finally,…

— Karen E. Bender

“A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed.”

— Robert Wells

“I think it’s pretty common for teenagers to fantasize about dying young. We knew that time would force us into sacrifices—we wanted to flame…

— Julie Buntin

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

— Hermann Hesse

“The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.”

— Frank Harris

“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life…

— E.M. Delafield

“This was still the era - it would end later in that famous decade - when to be young was a social encumbrance, a…

— Ian McEwan

“Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth.”

— José Saramago

“It is a poignant truth of our heedless youthful years, that the events and encounters of a single night can so alter the course…

— Iolanthe Woulff