Youth Quotes - Page 11

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.

Nikos Kazantzakis

When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me-- that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost.

Alan Bradley

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Dorothy Fuldheim

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Oscar Wilde

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

John Galsworthy

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

Grace Paley

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Cyril Connolly

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Emil M. Cioran

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.

Candace Bushnell

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

Piet Hein

As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.

Ally Carter

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

Michel Houellebecq

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.

José Emilio Pacheco

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...

Sinclair Lewis

Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Few, if any, survive their teens.

Maya Angelou

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

Jean Rhys

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

John Cage

Youth lasts much longer than young people think.

Marie Joséphine de Suin

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

Charlotte Brontë

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Julian Barnes

Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fightsNext judging chaps' rightsThen sitting in slippers: then drooling.

Robert Conquest

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

Haruki Murakami

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

Margaret Mead

I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.

Joanne Greenberg

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.'What do you do?''What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?''Why not?'She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams.'Because... I don't know,' she sighs.I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest.

Bret Easton Ellis

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

Catherynne M. Valente

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

Michael Ondaatje

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

D.H. Lawrence

I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.

M.F.K. Fisher

Like you and me," said Jade. "How we used to be.""What do you mean? Crazy?""Living on our own world. Believing what we felt was separate from everything else. We couldn't do anything except be together and nothing else was real.""That's right.""Well, that's crazy. And you just said it was, even you.""No, " I said, "not when we both believe it. Crazy people are alone and no one understands what they mean. But that's not our way. We both know and it makes complete sense. It's not when you make it true by living it. And other people believe it, too, remember. Believe it about us. Everyone who knows us, sees us together. We have that effect.

Scott Spencer

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

Evelyn Waugh

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.

Leanne Hall

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

Vladimir Nabokov

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

J.K. Rowling

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Glenway Wescott

O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring – as if you owned all the treasures of the world; even grief elates you, even sorrow sits well upon your brow. You are self-confident and insolent and you say, 'I alone am alive – behold!' even while your own days fly past and vanish without trace and without number, and everything within you melts away like wax in the sun .. like snow .. and perhaps the whole secret of your enchantment lies not, indeed, in your power to do whatever you may will, but in your power to think that there is nothing you will not do: it is this that you scatter to the winds – gifts which you could never have used to any other purpose. Each of us feels most deeply convinced that he has been too prodigal of his gifts – that he has a right to cry, 'Oh, what could I not have done, if only I had not wasted my time.

Ivan Turgenev

The madness of youth made me unafraid.

Lauren DeStefano

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.

Julian Barnes

Spontaneity is the province of youth

Jacqueline Carey

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

Ian McEwan

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Louisa May Alcott

Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn't it gorgeous?

Dave Eggers

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

Cassandra Clare

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you.

John O'Donohue

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears, writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to arrive.I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober.(I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.)

Charlotte Eriksson

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius

A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?

Derek Landy

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Trevanian

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

Ian McEwan

I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

P.G. Wodehouse

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

Patti Smith

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