YOUTH QUOTES VIII

quotations about youth

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"

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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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Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

LISA GARDNER

The Perfect Husband

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Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

The Girl Who Chased the Moon


Youth is the gay and pleasant spring of life, when joy is stirring in the dancing blood, and nature calls us with a thousand songs to share her general feast.

JOSEPH RIDGWAY

attributed, The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years


The young are always in extremes.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

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It was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses

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O happy childhood! blessed youth!
But once we know thy potent power;
But once we live all careless free;
No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Heart-Yearnings"

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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

JEAN COCTEAU

The Difficulty of Being

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Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS

Outdoors at Idlewild


When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.

SAM SHEPARD

Buried Child

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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"

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough.

LORD CHESTERFIELD

attributed, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign


The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta

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It's not simply that youth is full of beauty and energy; it is a time of promise, of possibility, of any number of choose-your-own-adventure stories.

MISS ROSEN

"Take a Sip from the Fountain of Eternal Youth", Crave Online, March 15, 2017


Youth is the crossroads between who you are and who you will become.

MISS ROSEN

"Take a Sip from the Fountain of Eternal Youth", Crave Online, March 15, 2017


There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

SOPHIA LOREN

attributed, The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes


It is the folly of youth to be too eager for manhood.

VON VIZIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

MME. DE GRARDIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


He who has youth and health can attain to anything.

AGATHOCLES

attributed, Day's Collacon