Young Quotes

Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb

~ Richard Due

Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.

~ Richard Due

You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

~ Richard Due

But— yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!

~ Richard Due

You haven't lived life to the fullest until you've found something worth dying for

~ Luke Edison

You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living

~ Luke Edison

It is good to be willing to stand as a hero, but you must also be willing to fall as a hero

~ Luke Edison

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.

~ Anthony Liccione

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

~ Ishmael Beah

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

~ Ishmael Beah

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

~ John O'callaghan

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

~ Alexander William Gaskarth

A young hero is the world's greatest attraction.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

~ John Locke

Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.

~ Mark Lawrence

My wakeup call wasn’t some light switch of empowerment. From as early as preschool I feared that if I didn’t grow up to be the pretty princess men fawned over, I was a failure. That mentality was my disease. It got me raped. It made me feel dirty and devalued because my cherry wasn’t popped on a bed of rose petals. It fueled an adolescence juggling starvation and vomiting until my throat bled out and my stomach acid burned through the plumbing. It made me snort coke, smoke meth, and routinely gulp down narcotic petri dishes in hopes of obtaining hallucinogenic intimacy with junkie boyfriends. But most of all, it made me waste my youth chasing, obsessing over, fighting for, worshipping, clinging to, and crying over one after another loser. At some point, I just quit giving a fuck.

~ Maggie Georgiana Young

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

~ Maggie Georgiana Young

She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

~ George Washington Carver

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Dream young. Don't settle for old - for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming - run like a sun's explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers.

~ Carew Papritz

You can’t be friends with someone you have feelings for. It’ll just be a constant reminder of what you can’t have. It’s like putting boiling water in an ice cold glass. It’s gonna bust and make a mess.

~ Jaime Reed

The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.

~ Jaime Reed

I’d have to prove to everyone, including Ellia, that I was more than some guy she used to know, that what we shared had and still mattered. She may have forgotten the promise we made on the beach, but I hadn’t, and it was up to me to backup those words with action. Memories and ghosts were for the dead. Living things moved, and I was never one to stand still. ~Liam

~ Jaime Reed

She was my go-to person. I’d tell her everything. Now, all of those late-night phone calls, all the sleepovers at her house because I couldn’t deal with stuff at home, all the crying on her shoulder. It’s all gone. It’s like if she doesn’t know, then it didn’t happen, and if it didn’t happen then what exactly am I holding on to?” ~Stacey

~ Jaime Reed

Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia

~ Jaime Reed

It’s like returning to a familiar room and noticing objects had been moved while you were gone—a chair here, a picture frame there. Items that were once brand new were suddenly broken in and worn from age. It was all very subtle, but enough to suspect paranormal activity or a cruel practical joke. When no one else saw what you saw, the freak factor really kicked in, because you were singled out and left questioning reality. ~Ellia

~ Jaime Reed

Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam

~ Jaime Reed

Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.

~ Jaime Reed

To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Dreams can either die young or mature to become realities depending on how they are handled!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are as young as you think.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really physically clumsy as well as boyish, it was almost impossible to put her at ease. It was as if she felt a deep distrust of everything.

~ Patricia Schartle

We are young, life is vivacious, life is fun, let's enjoy it, at the beach with loving sun.

~ Debasish Mridha

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

~ Amit Kalantri

Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.

~ Amit Kalantri

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

~ Robin Hobb

Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think things were about as close to fine as they ever got right then during those times. In the woods. No parents. No yelling.

~ Dan Groat

Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the side walk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your partner was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you

~ Heather O'neill