Quotes About Youth

Like all inexperienced people, Toby tended to make all-or-nothing judgements.

David, que se disponía a correr su cortina contra el oscuro crepúsculo, se detuvo y clavó la vista en el jardín. El chico estaba de pie bajo la acacia, en la parte

Never swim in a rough sea, dear boy, this sea's a killer. But the past refused to come back, as it did in dreams, to be remade. Titus walked in my dreams in the brightness of his youth, which was now made eternal. Or else I dreamed that he was dead and felt joy on waking.

God, how the young and beautiful vanish and are no more seen.

Jealousy lasts forever. Bad news for the young.

What larks we had, said James. When? When we were young. I could not recall any larks I had had with James. I poured out the wine and we sat in silence.

They had exhorted her to work hard, it need only be for a short time after all, at 'dull school subjects', such as English, French, History and Maths. Moy, who hated these with the possible exception of English, had decided some time ago that she would not work at these horrid subjects, would not take any of the beastly exams, and would leave school as soon as possible. She occasionally tried to communicate this decision to her family, but they simply refused to listen.

He wished he was not always young again in his dreams, it made waking up so sad.

Everyone says how wonderful it is to be young. I've never seen it.

The mysterious awful changes which alter the human face from youth to age may gently dally and delay, then act decisively all at once.

The young are self-satisfied really and utterly ruthless.

Yes of course I was in love with my own youth. Aunt Estelle? Not really. Who is one's first love?

I have been struck down before my life begins. I have already died in the war.

These young people have got to suffer, we can't save them from it —

Since he was sixteen, he had been continuously sexually active, either with a girlfriend or through a series of casual flings. From the point of someone like Kibby, he considered, he would be regarded as highly succesful with women. But the real problem is relationships, which fucking social retards like Kibby can't grasp, because they're just so obsessed with getting their hole.

it seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.

He was a very arrogant young man, so full of himself.

There's some kids playing out in the back, the strip of grass luminated an electric green by the brilliant sunlight. The sky is a delicious clear blue. Life is beautiful. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to have a long life.

Some auld cunt, they're always oan the buses at this time, is fartin and shitein at the driver; firing a volley ay irrelevant questions about bus numbers, routes and times. Get the fuck oan or fuck off and die ya foostie auld cunt. Ah almost choked in silent rage at her selfish pettiness and the bus driver's pathetic indulgence of the cunt. People talk aboot youngsters and vandalism, what aboot the psychic vandalism caused by these auld bastards?

Pití je pro mladé, které jeÅ¡tÄ› netrápí myÅ¡lenky na smrt.

Then whit? - Git a job. Or git oan a scheme. - No gaunnae stey oan n take Highers? - Naw. - Ye should. You could go tae University. - Whit fir? Geoff had to think for a while. He had recently graduated with a degree in English Literature and was on the dole. So were most of his fellow graduates. - It's a good social life, he said.

like a bairn trying tae stay up as late as possible.

We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up.

think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.