Boys Quote by Wilfred Owen

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

— Nicholas Sparks

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

— David Elkind

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

— James Broughton

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is…

— Victor Hugo

“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

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature…

— Henry Ward Beecher

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.”

— William Henry Hudson

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

— Simon Callow

hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for…

— Josephine Hart

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

— Mark Haddon

Boys don't cry. But they do. We do. I do. I weep all the time.

— Matt Haig