Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.

A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.

With any teen show, there's going to be drama and heartache.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.