Youth Quotes

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...

It was always the view of my parents, " Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.

He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.

The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, likeI had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

Youth lasts much longer than young people think.

Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald.

Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!

She wanted to be her, or be with her, or destroy her.

I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

[Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

But there was little heart to our lust, only the confusion of not knowinghow long we'd have in our bodies.

...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.

I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...

I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility

…but youth yearned to youth.

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

Connor is my friend... I've hacked. Which one came first?

Hey, you know that thing Dostoyevesky wrote on gambling? It's like that. When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.

We recognised that the youth demographic needed to be pursued, preferably with dogs.

As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their hopefulness: we never again face such towering blank walls of misery.

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.

I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just his youth talking, not a dogma.

The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything.

Some call it growing up. I call it life, and in my experience, it doesn't necessarily get easier over the years. But the eternal struggle is beautiful, and I'm happy to persevere.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.

We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.

I think I've lived quite the unorthodox life so far, but you probably feels that way about yourself too. So much goes untold in our lives.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

I remember my mean mouth, I remember how wise I thought I was. But I was not wise then. Now I am wise.

The splendor of youth is, to a point, the splendor of error. Jealous the old, who have everything previewed! The nightingale will never come sing over your wisdom. It won’t, darlin’, it won’t.