“Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.” SometimesLightAgeDarknessYouthAbsenceDefined Book:Fountain of Age Source: Fountain of Age
“Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.” IdeasFunSexDogYouthPeriodsSkinsHotIllDefinedSmokingGood TimesSmoothMarvelousDopeHot DogBefore DeathSmooth Skin Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe
“War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.” WarChildhoodYouthDefinedAdulthood Author:Ru Freeman
“Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.” Has BeensCultureYouthEverydayDefined Author:Jacob Bannon
“And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?” WellsSelfEnoughBigsEyeFacesLostPoorHappenedFashionYouthNeededRedGuiltDefinedMessShirtsHis EyesUsualSelf ControlHungSympatheticLoathingLadSelf LoathingTrousersSloppySurlyDapper Author:Jonathan Stroud