YOUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about youth

The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

DEREK TANGYE

The Way to Minak


It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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Youth isn't wasted on, or reserved for, the young.

JULIAN KIMBLE

"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016


The category of youth is the product of innumerable forms of assessment, intervention and normalisation, as well as the vehicle for achieving a range of social and governmental objectives. In addition, youth is not a singular entity, but rather an entire range of sub-categories: the 'delinquent' youth, the 'subcultural' youth, the 'at-risk' youth.

GORDON TAIT

Making Sense of Mass Education


There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"Celephaïs"

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For youth, everything is sport.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

attributed, Day's Collacon

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Of Human Bondage

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The retrospect on youth is too often like looking back on what was a fair and promising country, but is now desolated by an overwhelming torrent, from which we have just escaped. Or it is like visiting the grave of a friend whom we had injured, and are precluded by his death from the possibility of making him an atonement.

JOHN FOSTER

John Foster: Life and Thoughts


The magnet does not more surely and powerfully attract the needle, than youth by some electric sympathy of soul is attracted by youth.

ROBERT SHELTON MACKENZIE

Titian: A Romance of Venice


Youth is an emblem of heaven; there alone its bloom is eternal.

F. VALENTYN

attributed, Day's Collacon


This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY

speech at University of Cape Town, South Africa, Jun. 6, 1966


A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

WIGGINS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

ALPHAVILLE

"Forever Young"


Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

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With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

GLEN DUNCAN

I, Lucifer

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My youth is the foundation of me.

KHALID

"American Teen"


A country that betrays its youth is not going to survive.

DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH

"How government policy disfavors the young", MPR News, March 14, 2017


Youth that is so highly prized passes quickly like a dream; sad and wrinkled old age forthwith impends over our head.

MIMNERMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Ethel Churchill: or, The Two Brides


Every thing is pretty that is young.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Pamela

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