“A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?” PeopleIfsBelieveFeelingsFacesGirlBehindsVisionImagineYouthFairsMovedWeatherPrimitiveSympatheticEighteenWoven Book:Romola: In Two Volumes Source: Romola: In Two Volumes
“Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.” KnowsWorldTermTeacherImagineYouthIdealsIdealismNaiveEvaluatePlaces In The WorldNameless Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.” MenStatesActionLyingOrderPassionBehindsCasesImagineYouthDeedsAtmosphereAccomplishedForgetfulnessAlone Life Author:Georg Brandes
“The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.” DeathCausesImagineYouthSourceUneasinessApproaching Death Author:William Hazlitt
“Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.” KnowsWritingMeanEndsImagineJourneyYouthShapes Author:Gore Vidal
“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!” HumansDiesFallHuman BeingsImagineYouthMiseryPrivilegePainfulEnjoymentPerpetualSolitaryDecaySincerelyDeliveranceInsufferable Author:James Sharp
“... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.” IfsWellsArtFictionBreakAliveImagineYouthStandingCriticismAnd LoveMidstHonourSovereigntyAssuredLiterary Criticism Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“I came to know Christ when I was 13 years old at a youth camp I attended. I may not have known much about Him, but I knew I was saved by grace and that, because of the cross, I had a hope like no other. I cannot imagine life without Him.” KnowsYearsMayChristKnownGraceImagineYouthCrossesSavedCampsSaved By Grace Author:Bart Millard
“I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.” WritingChildrenMadeBookReadingImagineYouthGrewGrew UpResearchIncrediblesPhysicsPhysicistTheoretical Author:Michio Kaku