Quotes About Youth

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

Age 40. — I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.

Ages 60+. — Picasso said to me the other day: "One starts to get young at the age of sixty — and then it's too late." Only then does one start to feel free; only then has one learned to strip oneself down to one's essential creative simplicity...

Age 67. — Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young — I mean, for a whole day at a time.

Age 80. — In a dream you are never eighty.

The Child is father of the Man...

Dhe artisti i ri shkon drejt artit siç shkohet drejt mëkatit.

What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?

A most je i dalje stajao, onakav kakav je oduvek bio, sa svojom ve?itom mladoš?u savršene zamisli i dobrih i velikih ljudskih dela koja ne znaju šta je starenje ni promena i koja, bar tako izgleda, ne dele sudbinu prolaznih stvari ovoga sveta.

Sav sjaj što ga Bog svijetom propisa plavi o?i moje. Vezani su ?ilimi od sunca i sjenka. Ognjen miris ima vino života. Srce mi pod grlom bije. Za dug život i veliku radost! Putujte i brodite, ne ostanite željni burna mora, ni polja, ni gustih šuma! Milo je Bogu da vas vidi gdje vam je život pjesma i ples! Za žive i za one koji su mladi!

Bugünkü kuÅŸaklar daha çok hayatla deÄŸil de hayat üzerine görüÅŸleriyle meÅŸguldü. Bu anla??lmaz saçma bir ÅŸeydi ama böyle idi. Onun için de hayat deÄŸerini kaybediyor... kelimelerle harcan?p gidiyordu.

We create forms, like a second order of nature, we arrest youth, retain a glance which in nature would have changed or vanished a moment later, we seize and separate lightning movements which no one would ever have seen and we leave them, with all their mysterious meaning, to the eyes of future generations.

Their recollections were inexhaustible and they repeated them continually, amplified by memory and repetition; they looked into one another's eyes, sclerotic and with yellowing whites, and saw there what the younger men could not even suspect.

mladost se ne zadržava kod sje?anja, niti ostaje dugo pri istim mislima.

Geblendet vom Gefühl stolzer Kühnheit, mit dem das erste und unvollständige Wissen den jungen Menschen erfüllt, und begeistert von den Ideen vom Recht der Völker auf Freiheit und des Einzelmenschen auf Vergnügen und Würde, kamen diese Jünglinge aus den großen Städten, von den Gymnasien und Universitäten, auf denen sie lernten.

This generation was richer only in illusions; in every other way it was similar to any other. It had the feeling of both lighting the fires of a new civilization and extinguishing the last flickers of another. Everything appeared as an exciting new game on that ancient bridge, which shone in the moonlight of those July nights, clean, young and unalterable, strong and lovely in its perfection, stronger than all that time might bring and man imagine or do.

Uopšte, izgleda da je ovom sadašnjem naraštaju više stalo do njegovog shvatanja o životu nego do života samog.

DREAMS THE CHILDREN HAVE FOR

Let's go!' Peter yelled and ran off, his voice echoing through the mall. 'Last one to strike out at our imperialist oppressors is a Trotskyite stooge!' Some people stay in college way too long.

Wow, colorful. I think the kid's head plowed into me. He came at me like a mortar. Pow! Skull meets tits. Tits lose.

Well...yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody) Show what (Dallas) You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead. (Peabody)

You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead.

elevator doors opened; the girls clumped out, laughing

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?