“Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
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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.”
"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
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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
