Quotes About Youth

Maybe. But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.' Like falling in love. Do the young still fall in love, or is that mechanism obsolete by now, unnecessary, quaint, like steam locomotion? He is out of touch, out of date. Falling in love could have fallen out of fashion and come back again half a dozen times, for all he knows.

I don't like wine,' says Davíd. 'It's sour.' 'Wine is an acquired taste. When we are young we don't like it, then when we are older we acquire a taste for it.' 'I am never going to acquire a taste for it.' 'That's what you say. Let's wait and see.' Having

Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.

Igual que a los demás niños, al joven David no le interesa la x. Lo que quiere es estar en el mundo, experimentar esa sensación de estar vivo que le resulta tan nueva y excitante.

Su hijo tiene… ¿cómo llamarlo? Una seguridad en sí mismo nada habitual en alguien tan pequeño. No le dan miedo las aventuras; las aventuras de la mente.

Sólo es una cuestión de edad, de ciclos de deseo y de apatía de un cuerpo que lentamente se enfría y muere. Cuando era joven el simple olor de una mujer me excitaba: ahora solo la más dulce, la más joven, la más reciente tiene ese poder. Cualquier día de estos serán jovencitos. Esperando los bárbaros

Sólo es una cuestión de edad, de ciclos de deseo y de apatía de un cuerpo que lentamente se enfría y muere. Cuando era joven el simple olor de una mujer me excitaba: ahora solo la más dulce, la más joven, la más reciente tiene ese poder. Cualquier día de estos serán jovencitos.

le viene una imagen de los partidos de fútbol del parque: el niño, cabizbajo y con los puños apretados, corriendo y corriendo como una fuerza irresistible. ¿Por qué, por qué, por qué, si está tan lleno de vida —de esta vida, la vida presente— le interesa tanto la otra?

But then in dreams we are always children.

Decía que finges ser un ciudadano respetable y un hombre racional, pero en realidad no eres más que un niño perdido. Así lo decía textualmente: un niño que no sabe dónde vive ni qué quiere. Una

I don't think my sister is old enough to have sex." "V, she's the same age you are." He frowned for a moment. Was she? Or had he been born first?

When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Children were the only immortality mortals got—and even then, two generations later, three at the most, no one knew you in person anymore.

We were always every age we had ever been.

First loves were by definition passion with training wheels on. Sometimes you lucked out and the future was long and full of self-discovery on both sides that only brought you closer together. But more often than not, you had too much to learn about yourself.

But then this one time, at band camp

When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch--- when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had. No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given.

The young male had been toyed with cruelly, his body a pincushion of shallow stabs. Going by the raw patches on his knees and the gravel in his palms, he'd tried to drag himself away a number of times.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

It'll come, Jack- and in his countenance you saw he meant just death- What'll be with it? Maybe you gotta know a lot of people in Heaven to make life succeed. It'll come. You don't have to know a soul to know what I know- to expect what I'm expecting-to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day- When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you know, Ti mon Pousse

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.