1,743 Quotes About Youth

Merle had the feeling that he almost kissed her, but then his lips only touched her hair briefly, and all she could think of was that she hadn't washed it for days. It was crazy, really. Here they were, all trapped in this accursed sphinx stronghold, and she was thinking about washing her hair! Was that what being in love did to you? And then, was it being in love that was responsible for the lump in her throat and the fluttering in her stomach?

...она казалась гораздо моложе своих лет, что бывает почти всегда с женщинами, сохранившими ясность духа, свежесть впечатлений и честный, чистый жар сердца до старости. Скажем в скобках, что сохранить все это есть единственное средство не потерять красоты своей даже с старости.

The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating; later you realize you were only ever drunk on your own vision.

See him now, so boyish a body and an older head.” (Bhutta)

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.

But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.

They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling.

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.