“Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
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“In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
Les vieillards, dans les capitales, sont plus corrompus que les jeunes gens.
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“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Wedding Knell
"The Wedding Knell" (1837) from Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)
“Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
“Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person… and deep down, I'm not”
Jeph Loeb (1958) writer
Source: Batman: Hush, Vol. 1
