Philip James Bailey Quotes

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.