Youth quotations

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◆ Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...

- Tom Petty99

◆ So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham99

◆ On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

- Audrey Hepburn99

◆ There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

- Milan Kundera99

◆ Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

- George Washington99

◆ You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

- Ogden Nash99

◆ It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

- Jon Krakauer99

◆ Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

- Margaret Mitchell99

◆ There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

- Sophia Loren99

◆ I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

- Milan Kundera99

◆ He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

- Cormac McCarthy99