Quotes About Youth

What kind of love was it that I felt when I was twenty? It is difficult to define - my physical passions were very weak then, perhaps because of a few years of great poverty and hard work. But my intellectual passions were strong, meaning that without asking anything in return, without wanting any pity, I wanted only to give, but not to receive. Foolish, wrong, exaggerated, proud, rash - for in love one must not only give, but also take; and, reversing it, one must not only take but also give.

Oh, I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its founder was sublime- I have seen through present-day Christianity only too well. That icy coldness mesmerized even me, in my youth- but I have taken my revenge since then. How? By worshipping the love which they, the theologians, call sin, by respecting a whore, etc, To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is the opposite.ov

pareceu-me que você, assim como eu, estava sofrendo por ver sua juventude passar em brancas nuvens; mas se ela nasce e ressurge no que fazemos, nada está perdido e a capacidade de trabalhar é uma nova juventude.

E se, quando jovens, podemos acreditar que pelo trabalho assíduo podemos satisfazer nossas necessidades, isto atualmente torna-se cada vez mais duvidoso.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

These days, young men seemed to flirt with love rather than burn with it.

She smiled and touched the smattering of silver at his temple, a shyness in her, and yet a new self-possession in her as she came to the realization that love turns a girl into a woman, and a man into a boy.

one reason why we see so many young people from the North East in Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai and other Indian metropolitan cities is because Rajiv Gandhi made the north eastern states feel like part of the Indian mainstream. And

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

I who once played shepherds' songs and in my brash youth sang of you, O Tityrus, beneath the spreading beech.

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

every generation of people thinks they are growing up into a harder time. She thinks maybe it makes them feel better about the struggle they have leaving their childhood behind.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Carlito always used to say teenagers don't start drugs because they taste good, or because the kids are bored, or because they want to forget their problems, or because of their hormones, no, they get high to destroy their intelligence. Because if they kept it intact, just when it's at its peak, they wouldn't be able to bear the pain of the disgust they'd feel for their parents.

Seduction is within the reach of most young women, as long as they agree to play the game, because it mostly consists of reassuring men about their virility by playing the femininity game.

And that unconscious ease that comes of being so young — still oblivious to the blows that will destroy parts of her. Past the age of forty, everyone is like a bombed-out city.

Elle aimait L7, Hole, 7 Year bitch, et d'autres trucs assez atroces, que seules les filles peuvent écouter

Arthur is smart and he has words, but so do I. I stood there arguing with him. Then, in the middle of a sentence, he said sharply, "I'll decide when the vacation is over." I stared at him. I don't know what he saw in my face, but his own softened perceptibly. Very quietly he said, "It doesn't mean what it meant when you were young.

A lucky thing Eva Perón was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

S láskou je to jako s pe?ínkou: ?ím starší jsou zuby, tím mladší musí být jehn?.