YOUTH QUOTES VII

quotations about youth

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"

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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

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Youth that is so highly prized passes quickly like a dream; sad and wrinkled old age forthwith impends over our head.

MIMNERMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Ethel Churchill: or, The Two Brides


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

DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Rebecca


Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies. They could play, dance, love, and multiply their pleasures. They could leave a party, in the early hours of the morning, in the company of sexual partners they had chosen, and contemplate the dreary line of employees going to work. They were the salt of the earth, and everything was given to them, everything was permitted for them, everything was possible. Later on, having started a family, having entered the adult world, they would be introduced to worry, work, responsibility, and the difficulties of existence; they would have to pay taxes, submit themselves to administrative formalities while ceaselessly bearing witness--powerless and shame-filled--to the irreversible degradation of their own bodies, which would be slow at first, then increasingly rapid.

MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

The Possibility of an Island

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The magnet does not more surely and powerfully attract the needle, than youth by some electric sympathy of soul is attracted by youth.

ROBERT SHELTON MACKENZIE

Titian: A Romance of Venice


You can have your youth
It'll rot before your eyes

BOB DYLAN

"Long Time Gone"

Tags: Bob Dylan


Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


For youth, everything is sport.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Youth is when you are supposed to question who you are and what you believe, when the values and personhood given to you by your society and family are subject to critical examination so that you can redefine your own being.

JOE MARIANI

"On snow and God and Swarthmore", Swarthmore Phoenix, March 16, 2017


There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

SOPHIA LOREN

attributed, The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes


It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness, are like the days of spring; instead of complaining of their brevity try to enjoy them.

RUCKERT

attributed, Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopedia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors


O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire,
With energies immortal!
To many a heaven of Desire,
Our yearning opes a portal!
And tho' Age wearies by the way,
And hearts break in the furrow,
We'll sow the golden grain Today--
The Harvest comes tomorrow.

GERALD MASSEY

"Today and Tomorrow"

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Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

ALPHAVILLE

"Forever Young"


There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"Celephaïs"

Tags: H. P. Lovecraft