Y Quotes
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“Youth are the cure
for all dividing insanity.
You are the antidote
to all bewitching animosity.
Youth is the spirit of play
with the forces of ominosity.
Youth is but a sanctifying dawn,
out of the dusk of rigidity.
Youth are absolution
to habits of death.
Youth are walking
illumination manifest.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.”
“Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.”
Source: Sir Apropos of Nothing
“Youth brings fresh perspectives, challenging the status quo and paving the way for innovation and advancement.”
“Youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakeable conviction that for you, things would be different, the laws of physics would cut you a break. The missiles would never hit...Maybe for other people...But not for you. And when youth was lucky enough to survive its optimism, all Miller had left was a little fear, a little envy, and the overwhelming sense of life's fragility.”
Source: Leviathan Wakes
“Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.”
“Youth can be stolen.
The soul never forgets the cost.”
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it is to be young. - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix”
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.”
Source: The Difficulty of Being
“Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.”
Source: The Magnificent Ambersons
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
“Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.”
“Youth comes many times. You can experience it many, many times. So make sure you work hard each of those times.”
“Youth condemns; maturity condones”
Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
“Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.”
“Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm.”
“Youth culture is constantly evolving and Gen Z in particular is disrupting industries, says Witt. Gen Z represents an unprecedented group of innovation and entrepreneurship. This group is focused on niche interests and if brands don’t recognize this now and get on board, they are going to be left behind. It’s also important for brands to adopt a global mindset, as some of the most significant growth is taking place in countries that are either developing or underdeveloped.”
Source: The Gen Z Frequency: How Brands Tune In and Build Credibility
“Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.”
“Youth deals only in extremes.”
“Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.”
“Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.”
“Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.”
“Youth doesn't take advice.”
“Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.”
Source: New poems
“Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.”
Source: First Love, and Other Stories
“Youth, elastic and bright, disdains to be compelled. When conquered, from its very chains it forges implements for freedom; it alights from one baffled flight, only again to soar on untired wing towards some other aim. Previous defeat is made the bridge to pass the tide to another shore; and, if that break down, its fragments become stepping stones. It will feed upon despair, and call it a medicine which is to renovate its dying hopes.”
Source: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance
“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
“Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.”
Source: The Last Good Kiss
“Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than this. The song died away; they heard the river, bearing down the snows of winter into the Mediterranean.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
“Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.”
“Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.”
Source: Devices and Desires
“Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.”
Source: Plain Tales from the Hills
“Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.”
“Youth has a way of leaving you feeling vulnerable, even when you're anything but.”
Source: Liminal
“Youth has become a class.”
“youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.”
“Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.”
“Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.”
“Youth has no age.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.”
Source: East River
“Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).”
“Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.”
Source: Crossing to Safety
“Youth holds no society with grief.”
Source: The Tragedies of Euripides
“youth in love,
even when your ears ring,
tie your shoes under the moon
before the sun can touch the strings.”
Source: Sapling: The Beginner's Guide to the Art of Modern Poetry
“Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.”