1,743 Quotes About Youth

I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance.

You yourself are unsure whether to remain frozen in time or to grow upward with the coming rain.

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.

I'm glad we didn't know better.

Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did before.

For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in the world, that not every conceivable interest was centered in ourselves but that there existed another life - that of people who had nothing in common with us, cared nothing for us, had no idea of our existence even. I must have known all this before but I had not known it as I did now - I had not realized it; I had not felt it.

... is it the young who pass death to the old, or do the old bequeath it to the young? ― Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra

The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.

I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon as I recapture the thread of my former reverie I find it impossible to go on with it and, most astonishing of all, my imaginings no longer afford me any pleasure.