Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
- Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme,
- Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;
- Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,
- For oh, it is not always May!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, "It Is Not Always May"
It was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, All the Pretty Horses
- Fond youth, give o'er,
- And vex thy soul no more
- In seeking what were better far unfound;
- Alas! thy gains
- Are only present pains
- To gather scorpions for a future wound.
How much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, letter to his family, Oct. 18, 1918
Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.
HUGH HEFNER, Playboy, Jan. 1974
- When I was young my heart was young then, too.
- And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
SAUL BELLOW, Seize the Day
Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, Lodore
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