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“Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.”
“Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.”
“Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)
“Youth is just wasted on young people.”
“Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.”
“Youth is life's beautiful moment.”
“Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.”
“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the thrill of rapids, never comprehending your utter lack of control, your constant peril.”
Source: The Turncoat's Gambit
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
“Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.”
Source: The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel
“Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.”
Source: An Excellent Mystery
“Youth is not a number, but a state of awareness.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.”
“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”
“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.”
“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirits back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.”
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.”
“Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.”
Source: Spirit of Place: Lucy Maud Montgomery and Prince Edward Island
“Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.”
“Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.”
Source: The Mind-Body Problem
“Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.”
“Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.”
Source: The Poems of Edward Young
“Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.”
“Youth is not wasted on the young, not if you think about all the wonderful things you can do because you are smaller”
“Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.”
Source: Fraud: Essays
“Youth is not what you think,
Youth is not a matter of numericity.
Youth is the celebration of life,
Youth is the spirit of discovery.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Youth is not what you think,
Youth is not a matter of numericity.
Youth is the celebration of life,
Youth is the spirit of discovery.
Youth is not about age,
Youth is but a spirit,
The spirit of unsubmission,
The spirit of selfless uplift.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.”
“Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.”
“Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.”
“Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.”
“Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.”
“youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!”
Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
“Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.”
“Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
“Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.”
Source: Wedding Night
“Youth is stranger than fiction.”
“Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.”
“Youth is the backbone of nation-building.”
“Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.”
“Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
“Youth is the mirror that tends us to the reality of our looks. The reflections of our visages that insensibly get implanted in our subconscious lend shape to our psyche to define the course of our life.”
Source: Crossing the Mirage - Passing through youth
“Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.”
Source: Gertrude
“Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.”
“Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.”
“Youth is the only thing worth having.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)