“When we are no longer young we are already dead”

“When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.”

“These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts”

“Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young.”

“We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.”

“When we are young, we take a certain pleasure in our infirmities. They seem so new, so rich! With age, they no longer surprise us, we know them too well. Now, without anything unexpected in them, they do not deserve to be endured.”

“It is much worse to be dead when we are alive/ Dead by the fear of death, when we are not yet dead!/ The incredible paradox of worrying to avoid death / Being the very cause of death!”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”

“When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived.”