The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. The Picture of Dorian Gray

I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate. Demian

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within. Book IV

Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all. Never Give In!