1,743 Quotes About Youth

Arrived at an age when others had already long been married and had children and held important positions, and were obliged to produce the best that was in them with all their energy, I still regarded myself as youthful, a beginner who faced immeasurable time, and I was hesitant about final decisions of any kind.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness

In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

We have all had stupid youths,' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

I want to be six years old again - just for a day.It's not that things were so much better back then. They sucked.But I was the kind of kid who knew how to laugh about it all.That's what I want. I want to laugh.

The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow.

Aveva vent'anni e aveva bisogno di storie.

Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic.