Youth Quotes

Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!

The inquisitive nature of youth should carry over into our adult lives. Challenging the status quo and enticing curiosity should be a daily practice of adult life.

And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you’ve been assigned by people who might love you, but don’t really know who you are anymore.

Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise.

The young never expected to die.

No one can ever know you like those with whom you've shared the pangs of your youth.

We skip school and we ditch chores. We haunt shopping malls and grocery stores. House parties grow dull, but Amy's boyfriend is a dealer and we find ways to pass the time.

They're looking for guys like us, he says, young and hungry, not done yet. I say I'm not hungry, Rick, all I am is angry. He says that'll do just fine.

Apathetic in my adolescence, my heart is fluorescent. It flickerslike liquor store lights in the ghetto.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel.

This whole kissing process was turning out to be far more complicated and stressful than I'd thought it would be.

We’d like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.

When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains.

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.

There was nothing about youth that was fair: the young hadn't done anything to deserve it, and the old hadn't done anything to drive it away.

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.

Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.

We have all had stupid youths, ' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

-I was young! I made a mistake, okay! Haven’t you ever made a mistake?-I’m old! Of course I’ve made mistakes, you stupid little shit!

Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness

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when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

Alice felt a surge of pity for them, stuck as they were within the white-hot glow of youth, when everything seemed so vital, so essential, so important.

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic.

Young hearts have their unfathomable depths.

Thank God I've wasted my youth already. I don't want to do that again.

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books.

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city.

How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

The young have little use for the concept of rebirth, yet the older they get the more appealing the concept becomes.

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!

. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

More and more number of youths and adults get addicted to nicotine on daily basis.

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.