The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the struggles of youth and the feeling of being misunderstood and disregarded by society.
Anne Rice's quote emphasizes the paradox of youth, revealing the anguish that young individuals often face as they grapple with their identity and societal expectations. It suggests that despite the vitality and potential associated with youth, young people often suffer from a lack of respect and authority, leading them to feel that their experiences and struggles are overlooked or wasted on others, which adds to their sense of horror in navigating this transient phase of life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion on the challenges faced by adolescents during a youth empowerment seminar.
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.
We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lostβa heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
I am a deeply superficial person.
But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?
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