1,743 Quotes About Youth

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.

Youth and patience are foreign to one another.

We were young together in the worst way.

Maybe I was just too young to know how to hold all these balls in the air at once without wanting to cry.

You reminded me of a puppy dog. Someone so confused with which way to go. Excited and curious, but stuck in happiness that he seem to can’t move.

And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised to us wrongly... wrongly, an immortality. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored.

The aged remember their youth but the young have no aged memories.

It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain tattered charm; it was another thing entirely to be depressed in middle age, when you were supposed to have come to terms with life’s failings, as well as your own.

I may be too young to be lonely, but I am too lonely to be young.