Ellen Glasgow - Youth Quotes

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Though he had lost the fire of youth, he saw that the comfortable embers of age were still warm.

Ellen Glasgow

For it seemed to him that the actual boundary between youth and age is the moment when one realizes that one cannot change life.

Ellen Glasgow

He was a rather commonplace youth at bottom, with more behavior than brains. In a democracy, and perhaps anywhere else, it was safer to be average.

Ellen Glasgow

Youth can never know the worst, she understood, because the worst that one can know is the end of expectancy.

Ellen Glasgow

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Ellen Glasgow

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Ellen Glasgow

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 a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love'.

Ellen Glasgow

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Ellen Glasgow