YOUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about youth

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


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

Tags: W. Somerset Maugham


My youth is the foundation of me.

KHALID

"American Teen"


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


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

GLEN DUNCAN

I, Lucifer

Tags: Glen Duncan


Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men

ALPHAVILLE

"Forever Young"


Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


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

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

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Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly; youth, while we have it, we must wear daily, and it will fast wear away.

JOHN FOSTER

John Foster: Life and Thoughts


Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead.
From the minute we discover it with eyes closed
Advancing into mountain light.
Ouch.

JOHN ASHBERY

"Our Youth Is Dead", The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems

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It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

Tags: Stefan Zweig


It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2010: Odyssey Two

Tags: Arthur C. Clarke


Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

"Fortune's Child", Lapham's Quarterly: Youth

Tags: Lewis H. Lapham


Youth is when you are supposed to question who you are and what you believe, when the values and personhood given to you by your society and family are subject to critical examination so that you can redefine your own being.

JOE MARIANI

"On snow and God and Swarthmore", Swarthmore Phoenix, March 16, 2017


Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick,
Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

Tags: Tennessee Williams


A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

WIGGINS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire,
With energies immortal!
To many a heaven of Desire,
Our yearning opes a portal!
And tho' Age wearies by the way,
And hearts break in the furrow,
We'll sow the golden grain Today--
The Harvest comes tomorrow.

GERALD MASSEY

"Today and Tomorrow"

Tags: Gerald Massey