1,743 Quotes About Youth

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

What I didn't know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments - when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them. Maybe that's why some kids grow up too fast and others not at all.

Church is not about learning how to be a moral person (though that is what the dominant narrative they hear tells them); it is a place where immoral individuals go in order to receive the grace of God.

Albert spricht es aus. "Der Krieg hat uns für alles verdorben."Er hat recht. Wir sind keine Jugend mehr. Wir wollen die Welt nicht mehr stürmen. Wir sind Flüchtende. Wir flüchten vor uns. Vor unserem Leben. Wir waren achtzehn Jahre und begannen die Welt und das Dasein zu lieben; wir mussten darauf schießen. Die erste Granate, die einschlug, traf in unser Herz. Wir sind abgeschlossen vom Tätigen, vom Streben, vom Fortschritt. Wir glauben nicht mehr daran; wir glauben an den Krieg.

He started writing poetry again, but it didn't come as easily. It was hard now to get past the self-consciousness - the silliness, really - of being such a well-established adult applying himself, seriously, to such a youthful joy.

Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power; but it might just as well have been said that he had all his life long only been a many-sided dilettante.

That’s the trouble with you young people.” Saying young as though it was a bad thing.“You’re in too darn much of a hurry to notice.”“Notice what, exactly?”“The difference,” she’d replied slowly, as if I were particularly stupid, “between what people want you to see, and what’s real.

Аз съм у дома синавсякъде, стига да не съм там за дълго,мога да живея навсякъде,преди да ми стане твърде познато,не съм нищо повече от корифей на отсъствието.Датите на най-хубавите дниса написани на поредните билети,най-вълнуващият град е неизброденият, както най-уютната стая е още необзаведената инай-любимата жена е следващата, защото най-добрият начин на живот е винаги новият,а аз съм все повече себе си,когато отново съм вече друг.

Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.