Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• 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

  Years, Want, Youth

• Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Courage, Culture, Youth

• 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

  Grief, Passion, Heart

• 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

  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

• Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Youth, Cynicism

• Youth is always an enemy to the old.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Enemy, Generations, Youth

  Ellen Glasgow (1902). “The Battle-Ground”, p.271, University of Alabama Press

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Age, Youth

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

• audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Risk, Quality, Audacity

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

• Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Giving, Heaven, Half

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Age, Youth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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