Youth Quotes

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impr...

I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of ...

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

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrif...

. . . at eighteen the true narrative of life is yet to becommenced. Before that time we sit listenin...

I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage...

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

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being....

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blosso...

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At f...

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

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older...

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he ha...

And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And mo...

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes w...

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... ...

They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fear...

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the fu...

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, wha...

Oh I could be out, rollicking in the ripeness of my flesh and others’, could be drinking things and ...

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

Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older pe...

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hai...

Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of ord...

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

People get bitten. But I won't.' I found myself saying, 'You will, you will. These snakes don't know...

Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much mo...

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

It's a hard case,' said Paul. 'First, I'm twenty. That means I'm very nervous and ill-at-ease with w...

I don't think I really saw people except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, tha...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

for whenever men are right they are not young

may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better...

Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of “a friend,” “a person I know,” “a place I ...

It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.’s inhabitants was endan...

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and sp...

the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...

Nature felt no change, and was ever young.

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;-...

we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best ...

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little...

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to ta...

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! Th...

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a chil...

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a perman...

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they co...

Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, bur...

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkn...

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul in...

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chose...

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illo...

He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly incon...

He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two yea...

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of v...

The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little a...

Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely...

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country sayin...

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them ...

But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and ...

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty ...

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best...

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence...

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been...

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano...

That night in Cartagena he again requested the songs of his youth, some so old he had to teach them ...

Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm v...

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the chi...

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have fel...

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed ...