quotations about youth
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
LOUISE ERDRICH
The Plague of Doves
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
The youth is always going to decide the future.
BENJI MADDEN
"Benji Madden on Good Charlotte's Comeback, Cameron Diaz and Society's Celebrity Obsession", Newsweek, July 15, 2016
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken.... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSON
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
HILAIRE BELLOC
"Habitations", Sonnets and Verses
Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
This Side of Paradise
Thus youth passed by--a happy time!
Still ringing in my ears, a chime
Of sweet familiar tone!
Life never will, or can bestow
A time so blest, and free from woe,
As that delightful one!
C. B. LANGSTON
"My Boyish Days"
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.
ANNE MURRAY
"Snowbird"
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, Great Quotes for Great Educators
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Sketches and Travels in London
Youth isn't wasted on, or reserved for, the young.
JULIAN KIMBLE
"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016
Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an individual.
WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Youth is a positive thing. They're very opened minded, and they're years away from being jaded.
KELLER WILLIAMS
"Keller Williams is on an endless pursuit of entertaining himself", MLive, March 16, 2017
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
O youth whose hope is high,
Who dost to Truth aspire,
Whether thou live or die,
O look not back nor tire.
ROBERT BRIDGES
O Youth Whose Hope is High
Youth is always trending.
LEAH PRINZIVALLI
"Offensive and Irresponsible Calvin Klein Poster Removed Following Complaints", Yahoo Style, March 14, 2017
It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.
L'ESTRANGE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Youth, dyed in vanity, very rarely takes other color.
WORONICZ
attributed, Day's Collacon
I don't really feel like I want to chase youth. I want to get old. I want to experience all the seasons of my life.
PAMELA ANDERSON
"StyleWatch", People, January 27, 2015
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
W. M. THACKERAY
attributed, Day's Collacon