Quotes About Youth

So why am I often miserable about what goes on here? Shouldn't I be happy, contented, and glad.

But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more. I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.

Things were different when I was growing up.

I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday

Poor Peter, he needs to be loved so much! It sounded so cold when he said he didn't need any friends. Oh, he's so wrong! I don't think he means it. He clings to his masculinity, his solitude and his feigned indif- ference so he can maintain his role, so he'll never, ever have to show his feelings.

We jumped for joy. After the awful events of yesterday, finally something good happens and brings us...hope! Hope for an end to the war, hope for peace.

Escrever um diário é uma experiência realmente estranha para uma pessoa como eu. Não só porque nunca escrevi nada antes, mas também porque me parece que, mais tarde, nem eu nem ninguém estará interessado nos devaneios de uma rapariga de treze anos.

C?ci în mod fundamental tinereÈ›ea este mai solitar? decât b?trâneÈ›ea.

Later on, when you're older, you won't be able to enjoy anything any more. You'll say, "Oh, I read that twenty years ago in some book." You'd better hurry if you want to catch a husband or fall in love, since everything is bound to be a disappointment to you. You already know all there is to know in theory. But in practice? That's another story!

I have the feeling now that Peter and I share a secret. If he looks at me with those eyes that laugh and wink, then it's just as if a little light goes on inside me. I hope it will remain like this and that we may have many, many more glorious times together!

A los jóvenes nos resulta difícil conservar nuestras opiniones en unos tiempos en los que se destruye y se aplasta cualquier idealismo

Make the most of your carefree young life as you can.

Is it true then that grownups have a more difficult time here than we do? No. I know it isn't. Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard of us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are bing shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.

It seems to me that, later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl…

I want to take a fresh look at things and form my own opinion, not just ape my parents, as in the proverb "The apple never falls far from the tree.

Îmi dau seama c? o etap? din ea s-a încheiat definitiv: perioada f?r? griji È™i necazuri a anilor de È™coal? nu se mai întoarce niciodat?. Nici m?car n-o regret, am dep??it stadiul ?sta, nu pot s? fac doar tâmpenii, o p?rticic? din mine îÈ™i p?streaz? mereu gravitatea.

On Friday, June 12th, I woke up at six o'clock and no wonder; it was my birthday.

It's twice as hard for us young people to hold on to our opinions at a time when ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when the worst side of human nature predominates, when everyone has come to doubt truth, justice and God.

sign an official statement to the effect that they sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order. Eighty percent have decided to obey the dictates of their conscience, but the penalty wil be severe. Any student refusing to sign wil be sent to a German labor camp. What's to become of the youth of our country if they've al got to do hard labor in Germany?

You can't forbid someone to have an opinion, no matter how young they are!

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

he escrito, sino porque me da la impresión de que más tarde ni a mí ni a ninguna otra persona le interesarán las confidencias de una colegiala de trece años. Pero eso en realidad da igual, tengo ganas de escribir y mucho más de desahogarme y sacarme de una vez unas cuantas espinas.