Quotes About Youth

I'm not even in love with you. You don't even awaken in me one of those aberrant nostalgia that men my age feel with the proximity of a young life: you are an inferior being, Iris Mateluna, a piece of primary existence that surrounds a reproductive uterus so central to your person that all the rest of your being is a superfluous shell…

Uç, küçük kuÅŸum. Ä°yice yükseklere uç. En yukar?lara ç?k ve Tanr?'n?n parma??na kon. Tanr? seni baÅŸka bir çocuÄŸa götürecek ve nas?l bana güzel ÅŸark?lar ÅŸak?d?ysan ona da ÅŸak?yacaks?n. HoÅŸça kal güzel kuÅŸum!...' Ä°çimde sonsuz bir boÅŸluk hissettim.

El joven no necesita razones para vivir; sólo necesita pretextos

porque esa riqueza que es juventud se pierde día con día, y por tanto habría que gozarla día con día, alegre, frenéticamente, para sólo dejarle a la muerte un cuerpo enteramente gastado, vacío, sin una gota de vida por vivir...

Admiremos a los viejos por las superioridades que hayan poseído en la juventud. No incurramos en la simpleza de esperar una vejez santa, heroica o genial tras una juventud equívoca, mansa y opaca; la vejez no pone flores donde sólo había malezas, antes bien, siega las excelencias con su hoz niveladora.

El idealista perfecto sería romántico a los veinte años y estoico a los cincuenta; es tan anormal el estoicismo en la juventud como el romanticismo en la edad madura. Lo que al principio enciende su pasión, debe cristalizarse después en suprema dignidad: ésa es la lógica de su temperamento.

La vida vale por el uso que de ella hacemos, por las obras que realizamos. No ha vivido más el que cuenta más años, sino el que ha sentido mejor un ideal; las canas denuncian la vejez, pero no dicen cuánta juventud la precedió.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Naglalaho sa loob ng klase ang mga hadlang na itinatayo ng politika upang hatiin ang mga lahi, natutunaw wari sa alab ng kaalaman at kabataan.

Nawalan muli ng isang oras ang buhay ng bawat kabataan, saka isang bahagi ng kaniyang karangalan at paggalang sa sarili, at kapalit ang paglaki sa kalooban ng panghihina ng loob, ng paglalaho ng hilig sa pag-aaral, at pagdaramdam sa loob ng dibdib.

Childhood awakens in meaningless routine; youth lives its best years without an ideal; and maturity, sterile maturity, serves no other purpose than to corrupt youth by its example. I am glad I'm dying. Claudite jam rivos, pueri. Ring down the curtain, boys.

Youth is lazy. What galvanizes it is our opposition.

She was attractive because she was young, because she had nice eyes, a pretty nose, and a small mouth, and because her features were harmonious and enlivened by a sweet expression; but she was not a beauty to strike the eye at first glance; she was like a flower in the fields, pale and without noticeable fragrance, which is carelessly stepped underfoot, and whose beauty can be appreciated only after a careful examination, one of those nameless flowers of almost imperceptible perfume.

Where are the youth who will consecrate their golden hours, their illusions, and their enthusiasm to the welfare of their native land? Where are the youth who will generously pour out their blood to wash away so much shame, so much crime, so much abomination?

Mi juventud es juventud: es recio mi corazón y joven todavía y no me cansa la existencia...

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Para el hombre de la generación novísima, el arte es una cosa sin trascendencia.

The youth is the hope of our future.

To me literature is forever blowing a horn, singing about youth when youth is irretrievably gone, singing about your homeland when in the schitzophrenia of the times you find yourself in a land that lies over the ocean, a land - no matter how hospitable or friendly - where your heart is not, because you landed on these shores too late.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.