Quotes About Youth

One forgets so quickly one's own youth…

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .

Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.

It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [...] You can pull a stamp out,' she said with terrible youthful clarity, 'and you don't know that it's ever been there.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.

Cuando somos jóvenes somos una jungla de complicaciones. Nos simplificamos a medida que envejecemos.

A first reading is something special, like first love.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him.

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

She had attached herself to youth and hope and seriousness and now they had failed her more than age and despair.

I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September I met the Captain for the first time.

Recordé el reloj con pulsera de oro de la señorita Keene, minúsculo como el de una muñeca, regalo de sir Keene por sus veintiún años. En su pequeña esfera contenía todas las cifras de las horas, como si todas ellas tuviesen la misma importancia y un deber especial que cumplir.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old...

My second wife – I was still young then – she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that.

They looked like schoolboys, but with the Vietnamese age drops suddenly like the sun—they are boys and then they are old men.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation – but I think it is equally true of us all.

Was the secret of lasting youth known only to the criminal mind?

I got a glimpse of something young, dark and happy and not yet spoiled: an animal that didn't yet recognize her captivity.

Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.

Maybe I'm growing up, Thomas'. But there were tears in his voice, and he looked younger than he had ever done.

From behind he looked younger than he was in his dark thin ready-made suit a little too big for him at the hips, but when you met him face to face he looked older, the slatey eyes were touched with the annihilating eternity from which he had come and to which he went.

Graham Greene

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