Best youth & literature Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

“A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.”

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Author:John Barth

“Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.”

“Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”

World Reason Girl Literature Inspiring United Youth Attraction Charming Uncommon Happy Girl Steadiness Diffidence

Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey

“One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.”

Found Literature Differences Youth Accustomed

Author:James Joyce

“If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste.”

Ifs Giving Art Literature Youth Waste

Author:Charles Darwin

“In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'”

Life Inspirational Believe Ends Dream Fighting Literature Greater Youth Streams Dreamer Greater Things

Author:Edwin Markham

“The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.”

Literature Youth Humility Gains Fortune Seeking Humble Instruction Good Fortune Unassuming

Author:Joseph Addison

“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”

Ifs Men Way Life Said Wisdom Literature Memories Consciousness Wise Youth Regret Periods Life Regret

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.”

Light Age Literature Youth Aging Errors Revelations Birthday Renounce

Book:The Collected Works

Source: The Collected Works

“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”

People Soul Age Literature Interest Talent Youth Judgment Glory Invention Birthday Inventor Spurs Great Souls Inventions And Inventors Great Inventors

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”

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Author:Jonathan Swift

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]”

Doe Would Be Literature Youth Eternal Constant Endure Wounds Golden Grants Translations Heartbeat Bleeding Springtime Rust Eternal Youth

Author:Ludwig Borne

“Fame is the thirst of youth.”

Literature Youth Fame Thirst

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

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