Quotes About Youth

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.