1,743 Quotes About Youth

Puis ce fut la ronde de l'amour: la peur qui donne la main au désir, la tendresse et la rage, et cette souffrance brutale qui suivait, triomphant, le plaisir.

De temps en temps, le souvenir du corps de Cyril, celui de certains instants, me vidait le coeur.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

Investing a greater amount of time into yourself and your ambitions instead of messing around on social media can't be a bad idea.

The classroom is so rare. It’s one of the few times a group of different people have to be in the same room. Outside, it’s only strangers in subway rides for a few minutes. Or waiting in line for food or being in some doctor’s office. When I take the bus, everyone’s so tense. They don’t talk to each other. But to come in a room Monday to Friday, to know which people are shy, who volunteers to read, who cheats, and to laugh... There’s rarely a congregation like that.

Happy birthday to me. Twenty-four. Mid-twenties. Yay. I guess I have one year of youth left. At least I can round out twenty-four to twenty. Not so lucky with twenty-five, I’ll essentially be pushing thirty.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

I don’t think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It’s because they have nothing to lose. They simultaneously have a lot of time on their hands and yet are very impatient to get on with their lives.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.