Youth Quotes

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

The young are amazed when they suffer.

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!

Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.