Quotes About Youth

Parecía especialmente cruel, por tanto, el que tres días después, en el hospital, el médico entrará en su cuarto y le dijera que padecía algo de lo que jamás podría curarse, y que lo único que podía hacer era controlarlo, como si el control, para un chico de dieciocho años que quiere vivir a tumba abierta, no fuera la negación misma de la vida.

For years, maybe most of my life, I had languished in that typical young intellectual's delusion that gloom and despair are the romantic lot of the brilliant and the wise. But now I saw: it wasn't so. Why should it be? What sort of wisdom has no joy in it? What good is wisdom without joy? ... Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy.

It was all the same every year. And that's how I liked it. I never wanted it to be different, not even a little bit. It's funny. When you're young, you always want things to change. You want to grow up. You want to go to new places, do new things. But in the end, it's the things like Christmas, the things that are always the same, that you love the most.

The world I hadn't grown up in was spinning away.

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

Faster' by the Manic Street Preachers:

Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power.

The whole reason this place exists is because of the broken homes these kids fall in and out of. This lady is doing her best to give them a stable environment.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

I am sure I was babbling like some lovesick teenager. I shouldn't keep saying 'teenager'. Many of my so-called contemporary friends babble about their infatuations with this actor or that singer, too. Adolescence doesn't really disappear. It hides behind adult responsibility, poking its head out every time it has the opportunity. I

It was pretty obvious to me that he had just begun working here and was desperately trying to make a good impression. He was the type who would be proving his maturity all his life. He wouldn't appreciate that until he was over sixty.

They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.

The water was cold but it soon warms up when the boys are made of sunshine.

If being young is a crime scene," I said, "the evidence from that night is everywhere.

Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.

En una ocasión, Churchill tiró de un empujón a la piscina de la escuela, conocida con el nombre de Ducker, a un compañero muy bajito llamado Leopold Amery. Al darse cuenta de que Amery no tenía su edad, sino que era un estudiante del último curso, el joven Winston se disculpó diciéndole: «Mi padre, que es un gran hombre, es también de corta estatura».

To understand a man,' Napoleon once said, 'look at the world when he was twenty.

Napoleón dijo en una ocasión que «para entender a un hombre hay que observar cómo era el mundo a sus veinte años».

I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.

I liked her hair, fine and bright yellow, like corn. But I'd never been interested in people like that. I'd expected that to change as I'd gotten older, but those much-vaunted pubescent urges just never struck me the same way they seemed to hit other people.

shrugged. "I believe she exists. I just don't particularly believe in praying to someone who sets up a system that kills thousands of teenagers every year.

Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young." "Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won't ever be back.