Quotes About Youth

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit, between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values alive

Set in place the lovers who will afterwards be photographs.

Baile La Carmen está bailando por las calles de Sevilla. Tiene blancos los cabellos y brillantes las pupilas. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! En su cabeza se enrosca una serpiente amarilla, y va soñando en el baile con galanes de otros días. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! Las calles están desiertas y en los fondos se adivinan, corazones andaluces buscando viejas espinas. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! * * * * *

The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but he had fled.

Era a ese hombre a quien yo debía haber matado cuando yo era potro, cuando mis partes no estaban divididas, cuando yo, mi furia y mi voluntad éramos una sola cosa. p. 235

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

The problem is that we create an image of ourselves in our childhood and youth (often at the urging of parents, siblings or friends), and subsequently attempt to graft reality onto this image. More often than not, the graft doesn't take and the result is bewilderment and disappointment.

There were some smart young boys and girls there, and they grew used to my peripatetic absences. In the interim, they would 'delegate' the work to themselves and often keep those responsibilities when I returned. Yes, I think that was how it happened. It

You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.

In de fabrieken kon men nog lang oud blijven, zeker, maar men bleef er niet lang jong.

Todo en la vejez es impropio: matar, reírse, el sexo, y sobre todo seguir viviendo.

México, país civilizado, sólo matan lo preciso. Aquí no. Ve el cafre que maneja a un peatón cruzando la calle, y en vez de disminuir la velocidad acelera. Salta la liebre porque salta o se va a rendirle cuentas a Dios. Por eso viejos aquí casi no hay. En Colombia los viejos mueren jóvenes.

Crecimos juntos, cambiamos juntos, yo había cambiado también. El niño se hizo joven y el joven viejo, y el pueblo una gran ciudad. Ahora le digo adiós: una señora de negro llama a mi puerta y le voy a abrir. Medellín seguirá sola su camino, hasta dar al mar.

Declarársele a la novia es asunto tan arduo para un chiquillo como confesarle al cura un pecado contra el sexto mandamiento un inexperto pecador.

Otros dos niños de pocos años se arrastraban, semidesnudos, por esta vida y el piso de tierra.

El pleno derecho de existir sólo lo pueden tener los viejos. Los niños tiene que probar primer que lo merecen: sobreviviendo.

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

Militant nationalism needed regular transfusions of young blood to keep it alive, because it led a kind of vampiric half-life, imaginatively and emotionally draining but not visible in any mirror held up to contemporary Irish reality.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

Bet she still lives with her mum and dad and has piles of teddies on her bed...

The waltz was the only way a young couple could touch one another, and even through gloves I could feel the heat of your grandfather's touch,'she'd tell Luc, with a wicked glimmer in her eye.

The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I took it all as gospel. Now, after I've lived a little, I read the same works again and think, 'Has this author ever really had sex?