1,743 Quotes About Youth

Youth is a circumstance that time corrects, and error teaches us to err again along a different vector.

When we are young, we give ourselves completely. We allow our first friends, our first lovers or first songs inside us, to become a part of our unformed being, without ever thinking of the consequences, or of their permanence within us. This is one of the beauties of youth, and one of its burdens.

The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place.

O Time! It may be pitiless, or sad,And now and it brutally shakes the earth.If Time intends to annihilate you, my lad,Go boldly forward, and fight for all you're worth.

The trouble is, she was born at the wrong time. Too late for the ballroom love of the films she grew up with and too early to swallow all the flower-child stuff. The world has a way of making her feel too young and too old at once, both impossibly naive and impossibly cynical.

It's fresh to you because you're too young to know anything but the way things are now.

Youth was insidious. Taken for granted. Dismissed. It was scorned by those who had it, and those fortunate enough to live through it craved its return.

Every age thought they were so enlightened, and every age was stumbling around in much the same darkness of ignorance and fear.

Young or old,, it's all the same. Alive, we're ageless; dead, nothing at all.