Quotes About Youth

To-day we would pass through the scenes of our youth like travelers. We are burnt up by hard facts; like tradesmen we understand distinctions, and like butchers, necessities. We are no longer untroubled- we are indifferent. We might exist there; but should we really live there?

here the strength and the will of a generation of youth that died before it could begin to live is poured out in one vast lament upon the night.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Leer inleyerek kolunun üzerine yaslan?yor. Öyle bir kan?yor ki elimizden gelen yok. BoÅŸalan bir tüp gibi, birkaç dakika içinde çöküverdi. Okulda, matematikte birinci oluÅŸunun ÅŸimdi ona ne yarar? var ki?

Sonra da yerimizi deÄŸiÅŸtiriyor ve ka??t oynamak üzere bir baÅŸka yere postu seriyoruz. Çünkü yapabileceÄŸimiz üç iÅŸ var: Ka??t oynamak, küfretmek ve savaÅŸmak. Yirmi yaÅŸ için pek fazla say?lmaz. Ya da pek fazla...

He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Omul tân?r tinde cu toat? f?ptura spre zenitul vieÈ›ii.Drumul duce înc? în sus.Când ajunge pe culme È™i o porneÈ™ti pe drumul care duce în jos È™i z?reÈ™ti valea cufundat? în umbrele înser?rii, gândul morÈ›ii îÈ›i devine mai familiar.

Hai ragione: non siamo più giovani, non ci interessa più dare l'assalto al mondo. Siamo dei profughi, fuggiamo da noi stessi. Avevamo diciott'anni, e cominciavamo ad amare il mondo e l'esistenza: ci hanno costretti a spararle contro. La prima granata ci ha colpiti al cuore. Siamo esclusi ormai dall'attività, dal lavoro, dal progresso, non ci crediamo più. Crediamo alla guerra.

Tinere?ea trebuie s?-?i tr?iasc? prim?vara vie?ii.

One young boy, asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, a fireman or pilot or such, answered: Alive.

Ned watched her. She was young and pretty—a "handsome blonde," as he later described her.

All the young are in the net," he wrote, "anyone who tried to keep out of being a Nazi is hazed till they change their mind; a form of mass cruelty which exists only in such a country.

I think I have felt fear & anxiety & sorrow in small doses for the first time in my life. I do so love being young & I don't very much want to be 18. Although I often behave in a completely idiotic & 'haywire' fashion—yet I feel I have grown up quite a lot in the last year. I am glad of it.

As bombs fell, libidos soared. . . Young people were reluctant to contemplate death without having shared their bodies with someone else. It was sex at its sweetest: not for money or marriage, but for love of being alive and wanting to give.

She acknowledged a heightened sensitivity to the world around her. "I think I have felt fear & anxiety & sorrow in small doses for the first time in my life. I do so love being young & I don't very much want to be 18. Although I often behave in a completely idiotic & 'haywire' fashion—yet I feel I have grown up quite a lot in the last year. I am glad of it.

Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

I remembered this guy. Spade was the sixty-year-old version of the boys I had found irresistible in high school: brilliant, misunderstood, full of shit, and deeply sexy in a way that only I could appreciate. I felt a low gyration start in my hips that I hadn't felt in years.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.

Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands.

I always say that the young people are the future of the world, and if we start with them first, if we educate and develop a sense of tolerance among them, our future, the future of this world, will be in good hands for generations to come.

Twenty-five? Shawn squawked, horrified. Good Lord, he's a fetus!

Whereas Eloise gravitated toward retro granny chic and was pulled together on a daily basis, I either looked like a high school student who had just rolled out of bed, thrown on leggings, and gone to class, or a full-blown escort. There was no in-between.