Quotes About Youth

youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

I have not written my memoirs for those young people who can only save themselves from falling by spending their youth in ignorance, but for those whom experience of life has rendered proof against being seduced, whom living in the fire has transformed into salamanders.

But he's a fool who doesn't see how swift the wings of youth are, and how near the cradle lies to the grave.

sicché gli animi freddi e stanchi per l'esperienza delle cose, erano confortati vedendo il calore e le speranze dell'età verde.

Oh in youth, when hope has a long road ahead and the way of memory is short, [15] how sweet it is remembering what happened, though it was sad, and though the pain endures!

Ahi ahi, ma conosciuto il mondo Non cresce, anzi si scema, e assai più vasto L'etra sonante e l'alma terra e il mare Al fanciullin, che non al saggio, appare.

Diceva che i diletti più veri che abbia la nostra vita, sono quelli che nascono dalle immaginazioni false; e che i fanciulli trovano il tutto anche nel niente, gli uomini il niente nel tutto. ( Detti memorabili di Filippo Ottonieri )

may be known, but is in no way felt" (Z 1099) and the youthful illusions (l'inganno giovanile) that survive into old age (

She was about eighteen, wearing a two-piece red bathing suit. She had blonde hair and she was really built, so when she ran you wanted to watch.

He burned and crackled and he ran from me with a sudden childlike agility, as if all the stamina of his youth had returned.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The young can be so unreasonable in what they expect from

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

The world had little patience or concern for innocence.

Maybe it's because I was the youngest or maybe it's because I was girl, but I've spent much of my life expecting to be chastised for asking stupid questions.

Boys are rewarded for playing games where they line up by height and then run into walls. Perhaps I'm making that up--or perhaps you should do a Google search for "Guy Runs into Wall for Fun.

Some days after, the girl encountered her again, in a dream, as she was years ago: a very slender young woman in a long white skirt, her amber hair to her waist, her eyes coal black with ardor.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

Los rostros jóvenes son como esos cuadernos bellamente empastados que venden en las papelerías con las páginas en blanco. Sólo el tiempo pone palabras en los rostros, historias, carácter.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

Nella vita, se uno vuol capire, capire sul serio come stanno le cose di questo mondo, deve morire almeno una volta. E allora, dato che la legge è questa, meglio morire da giovani, quando uno ha ancora tanto tempo davanti a sé per tirarsi su e risuscitare... Capire da vecchi è brutto, molto più brutto. Come si fa? Non c'è più tempo per ricominciare da zero

Tenendosi a braccetto, alcune ragazze formavano a volte delle catene tutte femminili di cinque o sei. Strane, mi dicevo, guardandole. Nell'attimo che le incrociavamo, scrutavano attraverso i cristalli coi loro occhi ridenti, nei quali la curiosità si mescolava a una specie di bizzarro orgoglio, di disprezzo appena simulato. Davvero strane. Belle e Libere.

Nella vita, se uno vuol capire, capire sul serio come stanno le cose di questo mondo, deve morire almeno una volta. E allora, dato che la legge è questa, meglio morire da giovani, quando uno ha ancora tanto tempo davanti a sé, per tirarsi su e risuscitare...Capire da vecchi è brutto, molto più brutto.

lo que Pietro se proponía para satisfacción de los tres se me ha olvidado; pero bien sé que a la mañana siguiente en la plaza se vio el joven no muy seguro de a quién había acompañado más por la noche, si a la mujer o al marido.