1,743 Quotes About Youth

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

Where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

It felt like waiting for something to happen. Which has to be the worth part of being young. So many of your decisions aren't yours; they're made by other people. Sometimes they're made badly by other people. Sometimes they're made by other people who have no idea what the consequences of those decisions might be. The bastards.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.