Quotes About Youth

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

Children are our future. We cannot allow them to run amok. -pg. 167 The Collected Sayings of the Emperor "The Demon's Daughter

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

non bisogna togliere ai giovani la sete dell'irrealizzabile.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Mes yeux vers les vagues au bord de la plage, Pleine des forces, s'emparent du rivage J'aperçois mon jeune âge, Si éphémère et plein des rages.

I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.

Se il vecchio Alex pedalava con l'energia disperata d'un Girardengo appena appena più basso e rock, non era solo per andare a un appuntamento, ma per allontanarsi da bordo ring, converrete. In ogni caso, stava pur sempre per incontrare Adelaide e così quel matto pedalava dinamico come nessuno, e mentre pedalava cantava White Man In Hammersmith Palais con voce bassa e stonata.

Basta parlarci dieci minuti, con certi diciassettenni - con i ragazzi intendo, perché con le ragazze è un'altra storia, più complicata - e salta fuori subito che sono dei maledetti insicuri.

hombre de hoy no sabe a dónde va, y esto quiere decir que está perdido, sin rumbo, desorientado. Tenemos dos exponentes claros al respecto: en los jóvenes, la droga, y en los adultos, las rupturas conyugales.

Qué fácil es torcer la trayectoria de un adolescente, inmersos como estamos en una sociedad muy permisiva y relativista! Por

Cuarenta y dos años contra dieciocho, a la vejez viruelas, crucificadla por puta. Pero qué lindo sería morder esa fruta verde.

A infância é uma batalha perdida.

No todo el mundo sabe que a Veracruz y a sus playas lejanas no pienso en la vida nunca volver. Fui feliz allí, el mes pasado, en noche de luna llena, en Los Portales, ni antes ni después de esa noche, en el último mes de julio de mi juventud. Pero no pienso en la vida nunca volver, pues sé muy bien que la nostalgia de un lugar sólo enriquece mientras se conserva como nostalgia, pero su recuperación significa la murte.

Pero si un día encontrara ese autor tan buscado, ese fantasma, ese genio, difícilmente éste mejoraría lo ya dicho por tantos otros acerca de las grietas que separan las expectativas de la juventud y la realidad de la madurez, lo ya dicho por tantos otros sobre la naturaleza ilusoria de nuestras elecciones, sobre la decepción que culmina la búsqueda de logros, sobre el presente como fragilidad y el futuro como dominio de la vejez y de la muerte.

el recuerdo de aquel día de su juventud en el que iba sin paraguas y, aun así, se dedicó a perder el tiempo mirando fijamente a la cara de los transeúntes a la caza de la esencia única de cada uno, y terminó muy mojado.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Non aspetti il giovane a filosofare, né il vecchio di filosofare si stanchi: nessuno è troppo giovane o troppo vecchio per la salute dell'anima.

Que ninguém se demore a buscar a sabedoria quando for jovem, nem se canse na busca dela quando envelhecer. Pois nenhuma idade é muito cedo ou muito tarde para a saúde da alma.