Youth Quotes

As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now that it was time for buds to blossom, what did that matter?

~ Marcel Proust

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

...for they was never a young man yet who don't want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man, or have to do something to earn his right to what is there for the taking, all along. Only he don't think he can ask, nor take, without earning it. Without no pain. Oftener than not, a young man's a regular fool.

~ Lee Smith

Friday dusk becomes Friday evening. The park is feverish with life. A young Asian man screams into his mobile phone, not stopping to listen: a young man with his heart in his penis.

~ Craig Stone

No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.

~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.

~ Truddi Chase

And I’ll look back at him because I shan’t be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I’ve ever loved, and every time I’ve been happy.

~ Jean Rhys

It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer and more sharply edged than any other.

~ Grace Metalious

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.

~ Amit Kalantri

You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything's old hat. They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

~ Tim Tharp

They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts.

~ Tom Wolfe

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

~ T.h. White

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

~ Robert Harris

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

~ Friedrich Schiller

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

~ Henry David Thoreau

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

~ J.m. Coetzee

I can never see why people should be jealous. After all, youth isn't a matter of privilege, we all get the same share of it. Some people may be born at an easier time or be richer or more privileged than others, but that hasn't anything to do with being young

~ P.d. James

In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way thatdeflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important.Love somebody extra.

~ Victoria Moran

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

~ George Chapman

With age brings wisdom, with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable.

~ Ocian Hamel-Smith

CLEOPATRA: My salad days,When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,To say as I said then! But, come, away;Get me ink and paper:He shall have every day a several greeting,Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

~ William Shakespeare

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

~ Bill Vaughn

Youth must triumph... now. Afterwards, it will be life.

~ Jose Garcia Villa

Passion + Purpose = Prosperity.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

~ George Eliot

I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn't. The spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and idleness. We didn't want money. What for? We could get by, living off parents, friends or the State And if we were going to be bored, and we were usually bored, rarely being self-motivated, we could at least be bored on our own terms, lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine. I didn't want to work in a place where I couldn't wear my fur coat.

~ Hanif Kureishi

A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.

~ Harlan Coben

...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no longer be discerned which was coming and which going, which following and which leading, the old or the young man. Now it seemed to be the young man who showed honour and obedience to the old man, to authority and dignity; now again it was apparently the old man who was required to follow, serve, worship the figure of youth, of beginning, of mirth. And as he watched this at once senseless and significant dream circle, the dreamer felt alternately identical with the old man and the boy, now revering and now revered, now leading, now obeying; and in the course of these pendulum shifts there came a moment in which he was both, was simultaneously Master and small pupil; or rather he stood above both, was the instigator, conceiver, operator, and onlooker of the cycle, this futile spinning race between age and youth.

~ Hermann Hesse

There's a reason why I've spent one-third of my life doing this. My dream is to meet and connect 3 billion young people of the world to information and opportunities in my lifetime.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears at the banter of eighteen-year-olds on the street. It frankly examined their bodies. It did not know its place: that my youth governed me with such ease didn't mean I was young. It meant I was divided as if housing a stowaway soul, rife with itches and yens which demanded a stern vigilance. I didn't live thoughtlessly in my flesh anymore. My body had not, in its flesh, fundamentally changed quite so much as it now could intuit the change that would only be dodged by an untimely death, and to know both those bodies at once, the youthful, and the old, was to me the quintessence of being middle-aged. Now I saw all my selves, even those that did not yet exist, and the task was remembering which I presented to others.

~ Susan Choi

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

~ Robert Frost

Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.

~ Diana Peterfreund

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

~ Tennessee Williams

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.

~ Agatha Christie

You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something — and you can’t. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little — not a thing in the world — not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 600-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.

~ Joseph Conrad

You were trying to impress her with a story about getting mauled by a thresher?”“It made sense at the time.”“Ah, youth.” He sighed. “Do you know what I would give to be young again?”“No, what?”“Nothing. In fact, you’d have to pay me.

~ Jon Skovron