Quotes About Youth

Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings—a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.

The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.

did I mention my first kiss was extracted by someone who never should have been that lucky?

When it's this windy doesn't it seem impossible to grow old?

I spoke to a twelve-year-old boy from the Czech camp who was wandering along the barbed wire, looking for something to eat. After speaking to him for a few minutes, I said, "Karli, do you know that you are too clever?" "Yes," was the reply, "I know that I am very clever. But I know, too, that I shall never have a chance to be more clever. That is what is tragic.

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

Infants and old people look the same.

She thought about how hno one had taught us to grow old, how we didn't know what it would be like. When we were young we though of old age as an ailment that affected only other people. While we, for reasons never entirely clear, would remain young. We treated the old as though they were responsible for their condition somehow, as though they'd done something to earn it, like some types of diabetes or arteriosclerosis. And yet this was an ailment that affected the absolute most innocent.

Z jakich? wzgl?dów ludzie nie potrafi? wyobra?a? sobie ko?ców, nie tylko ko?ców rzeczy wielkich, ale nawet najmniejszych. Mo?e samo wyobra?anie sobie czegokolwiek wyczerpuje jako? rzeczywisto??; mo?e ona nie chce by? wyobra?ana w g?owach ludzi, mo?e chce by? wolna, jak zbuntowany nastolatek, i to w?a?nie dlatego zawsze jest inaczej, ni? mo?na to by?o sobie wyobrazi?.

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

For people my age, the places that they truly loved and to which they once belonged are no longer there.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labor with an age of ease.

Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.

Only the young die good.

The fantasies of 'academic freedom' . . . cannot protect a professor who counsels resistance to the law and speaks, writes, disseminates treason. That a teacher of youth should teach sedition and treason, that he should infect, or seek to infect, youthful minds with ideas fatal to their duty to the country, is intolerable.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.