Quotes About Youth

The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Everyone dies young.

A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

They say the brain never ages it's a shame it can't teach the body that trick.

Life and Death, is like walking in a long bridge. Starts in one site and ends on other side. For example, younger people walk fast than old people .

Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.

Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die." I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

Death is just a distant rumour to the young.

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It's not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.