quotations about youth
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken.... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSON
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
preface, The Snow-Image
In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey,
The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being;
It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes;
The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings:
Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite,
And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
LOUISE ERDRICH
The Plague of Doves
Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
This Side of Paradise
The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Identifying and unlocking entrepreneurial potential among youth is vitally important as they are our future economic drivers.
ANONYMOUS
"Campbellsport team wins first place in 2017 IGNITE! Youth Idea Challenge", Fond du Lac Reporter, March 14, 2017
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Sketches and Travels in London
Youth is always trending.
LEAH PRINZIVALLI
"Offensive and Irresponsible Calvin Klein Poster Removed Following Complaints", Yahoo Style, March 14, 2017
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
"Student Riots", The Emporia Gazette, Apr. 8, 1932
O youth whose hope is high,
Who dost to Truth aspire,
Whether thou live or die,
O look not back nor tire.
ROBERT BRIDGES
O Youth Whose Hope is High
Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.
UMBERTO ECO
The Paris Review, summer 2008
Thus youth passed by--a happy time!
Still ringing in my ears, a chime
Of sweet familiar tone!
Life never will, or can bestow
A time so blest, and free from woe,
As that delightful one!
C. B. LANGSTON
"My Boyish Days"
It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.
L'ESTRANGE
attributed, Day's Collacon
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature and Selected Essays
Youth, dyed in vanity, very rarely takes other color.
WORONICZ
attributed, Day's Collacon
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
I don't really feel like I want to chase youth. I want to get old. I want to experience all the seasons of my life.
PAMELA ANDERSON
"StyleWatch", People, January 27, 2015
Youth is a positive thing. They're very opened minded, and they're years away from being jaded.
KELLER WILLIAMS
"Keller Williams is on an endless pursuit of entertaining himself", MLive, March 16, 2017
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
W. M. THACKERAY
attributed, Day's Collacon