1,743 Quotes About Youth


  • Author Vera Brittain
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    Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable?

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  • Author Mitsuyo Kakuta
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    まだ何ものでもないというのに、すでに何ものかであるような傲慢な錯覚を抱き、今手にしているものは砂の一粒も失うことなく歩いていけると信じている。自分が笑うとき、世界もいっしょになって笑っていると疑わず、こっそり泣くとき、世界が自分だけを苦しめていると思っている。なんと無知でなんと幸福な時間に、彼らはいるのだろう。

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  • Author Malcolm X
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    Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....

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