Youth Quotes

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.

~ Julie Reece Deaver

Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.

~ Lydia Millet

Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.

~ Tina Fey

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable?

~ Vera Brittain

we’re too old to be young.

~ Caroline Kepnes

Arrived at an age when others had already long been married and had children and held important positions, and were obliged to produce the best that was in them with all their energy, I still regarded myself as youthful, a beginner who faced immeasurable time, and I was hesitant about final decisions of any kind.

~ Stefan Zweig

It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Greek at eighty; SophoclesWrote his grand Oedipus, and SimonidesBore off the prize of verse from his compeers,When each had numbered more than fourscore years,And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten,Had but begun his Characters of Men.Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales,At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales;Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,Completed Faust when eighty years were past,These are indeed exceptions; but they showHow far the gulf-stream of our youth may flowInto the arctic regions of our lives.Where little else than life itself survives.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

~ Albert Einstein

It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

~ Stephen King

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

~ Oscar Wilde

I want to be six years old again - just for a day.It's not that things were so much better back then. They sucked.But I was the kind of kid who knew how to laugh about it all.That's what I want. I want to laugh.

~ Jaye Murray

When I looked at them sitting around me, the church in the distance, beyond that our school, with throngs of girls crossing back and forth in the schoolyard, beyond that the world, how I wished that everything would fall away, so that suddenly we'd be sitting in some different atmosphere, with no future full of ridiculous demands, no need for any sustenance save our love for each other, with no hindrance to any of our desires, which would, of course, be simple desires — nothing, nothing, just sitting on our tombstones forever.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

We have all had stupid youths,' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

~ Lauren Groff

-I was young! I made a mistake, okay! Haven’t you ever made a mistake?-I’m old! Of course I’ve made mistakes, you stupid little shit!

~ Drea Damara

Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

~ S.e. Hinton

I'm again a twelve-year old dreamer, a girl fascinated by an ancient piano and with Rona Lubliner's fingers.

~ Victoria Avilan

But here we call it Spring, when a young man’s fancy turns,fitfully, lightly, to idling in the sun,to touching in the dark. And the old man's?To worms in their garden box; stepping asidea moment in a poem that will remember,fitfully, who made it and the discordand stammer, and change of heart and catch of breathit sprang from. A bending downlightly to touch the earth.

~ David Malouf

I have a computer in my brain,' she said.'So while I'm not going to tell you that I am the smartest or, by any means, the most experienced person in this room, I would suggest that no one use my youth to believe that I am ignorant.' Cinder

~ Marissa Meyer

We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness

~ J.k. Rowling

In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

~ Ted Hughes

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Church is not about learning how to be a moral person (though that is what the dominant narrative they hear tells them), it is a place where immoral individuals go in order to receive the grace of God.

~ Jonathan P. Hill

Alice felt a surge of pity for them, stuck as they were within the white-hot glow of youth, when everything seemed so vital, so essential, so important.

~ Kate Morton

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

~ Dan Groat

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

~ Patton Oswalt

Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

~ M.t. Bass

He started writing poetry again, but it didn't come as easily. It was hard now to get past the self-consciousness - the silliness, really - of being such a well-established adult applying himself, seriously, to such a youthful joy.

~ B.j. Novak

Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic.

~ Lauren Groff

There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning alchemistsCould re-create the rose with all its membersFrom its own ashes, but without the bloom, Without the lost perfume Ah me! what wonder-working, occult scienceCan from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore?What craft of alchemy can bid defianceTo time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

~ James Crumley

Young hearts have their unfathomable depths.

~ Knut Hamsun

Thank God I've wasted my youth already. I don't want to do that again.

~ Greg Deane

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

~ Agatha Christie

The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly. The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

~ Booker T. Washington

When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books.

~ Nathan Fillion

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.

~ Agatha Christie

It was October 2001 and I lived in New York City. I was twenty two. I, like many of my female friends, suffered from a strange combination of post 9/11 anxiety and height of Sex and the City anxiety. They are distinct and unnerving anxieties. The questions that ran through my ming were something like this: 'Should I keep a gas mask in my kitchen? Am I supposed to be able to afford Manolo Blahnik shoes? What is Barneys New York? You're trying to tell me a place called 'Barney's' is fancy?'Where are the fabulous gay friends that I was promised? Gay guys hate me! Is this anthrax or powdered sugar? Help! Help!

~ Mindy Kaling

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

~ Simon Van Booy

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

~ Paulo Coelho

I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

~ William Shakespeare