Quotes About Youth

There was a diabolical effrontery in her fiery eyes, the heavy eyelids that drooped suggestively, persuasively, and the young man felt himself weakening beneath the silent willpower of this woman who was asking him to commit a crime.

Perciò rinunciava al flauto, ai sentimenti esaltati, all'immaginazione; poiché ogni borghese, nel calore della gioventù, almeno per un giorno, per un minuto, si è sentito capace d'immense passioni, di grandi imprese. Il più mediocre dei libertini ha sognato sultane; ogni notaio porta in sé i relitti di un poeta.

Elle ne se doutait point que l'amour, disparu de sa vie, palpitait là, près d'elle, sous cette chemise de grosse toile, dans ce cÅ"ur d'adolescent ouvert aux émanations de sa beauté.

Clown. A été disloqué dès l'enfance.

His pleasures, like boys playing in a school yard, had so thoroughly trampled on his heart that nothing green would grow there.

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

When we are young, our mornings are triumphant!" Then

La jeune fille se retrouvait dans ces histoires d'autrefois, s'étonnant de la similitude de leurs pensées, de la parenté de leurs désirs ; car chaque cÅ"ur s'imagine ainsi avoir tressailli avant tout autre sous une foule de sensations qui ont fait battre ceux des premières créatures et feront palpiter encore ceux des derniers hommes et des dernières femmes.

Strang thing! How does it happen that the presence of a woman overwhelms us so? Is it the power of her grace which enfolds us? Is it the seduction of her beauty and youth, which intoxicates one like wine?

A fiatal lány mintha önmagával találkozott volna ezekben a régi történetekben: elcsodálkozott, mennyire hasonlók a gondolataik, s mennyire azonosak a vágyaik. Mert minden szív azt képzeli: Å' remegett meg elÅ'ször attól a sok élménytÅ'l, ami megdobbantotta már az elsÅ' emberek szívét, és meg fogja dobogtatni az utolsó férfiét és az utolsó asszonyét is.

Pero cuando el sol desciende, una confusa alegría invade todo mi cuerpo. Me despierto, me animo. A medida que crece la sombra me siento distinto, más joven, más fuerte, más activo, más feliz.

C'est toute la jeunesse, toute la beauté, tout l'espérance du succès, tout l'idéal poétique de vie brillante, qu'on sacrifie à cette abominable loi de la reproduction qui fait de la femme normale une simple machine à pondre des êtres.

A la moitié du chemin de la vraie vie, nous étions environnés d'une sombre mélancolie, qu'ont exprimée tant de mots railleurs et tristes, dans le café de la jeunesse perdue.

But real adults — people who are masters of their own lives — are in fact nowhere to be found. And a youthful transformation of what exists is in no way characteristic of those who are now young; it is present solely in the economic system, in the dynamism of capitalism. It is things that rule and that are young, vying with each other and constantly replacing each other.

Nel mezzo del cammin della vera vita, eravamo circondati da una malinconia oscura, che tante parole tristi e beffarde hanno espresso, nel caffè della gioventù perduta.

At the halfway point of the journey making up real life, we were surrounded by a gloomy melancholy, one expressed by so many derisive and sorrowful words in the café of lost youth.

Jamais plus nous ne boirons si jeunes.

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

One look at Scott was enough to tell you that the twig between his legs hadn't had its bark peeled back in a coon's age. Mr. Secretary ought to read Surgeon Kittson's annual

One look at Scott was enough to tell you that the twig between his legs hadn't had its bark peeled back in a coon's age.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

To fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else. (writing of public education in the April 1924 The American Mercury )