1,743 Quotes About Youth

Verden var et jævelig sted, det hendte så mye som jeg verken kunne begripe eller forstå.

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221

Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if we’re not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back into, the youthful world the young preside over.