Youth - Quotes

The retrospect on youth is too often like looking back on what was a fair and promising country, but is now desolated by an overwhelming torrent, from which we have just escaped. Or it is like visiting the grave of a friend whom we had injured, and are precluded by his death from the possibility of making him an atonement. - John Foster

The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine. - Luc de Clappiers

The whims of youth break all the rules. - Homer

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. - Benjamin Disraeli

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth – are something better than youth. - George Eliot

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. - H. P. Lovecraft

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 Loren

There may be no fool like an old fool, but our observation has been that the young fool runs him a pretty close second. - Robert Elliott

When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck. - Haruki Murakami

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. - Lord Cheserfield

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them – the one, in fact, which is not a mask. - W. H. Auden

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. - Lewis H. Lapham

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. - J. K. Rowling

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 vigour of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental 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. - Samuel Ullman

Youth is the golden period of life, and every well-spent moment will be like good seed planted in an auspicious season. - Eliza Cook

Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an individual. - William R. Williams

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. - Nicholas Sparks

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness, are like the days of spring; instead of complaining of their brevity try to enjoy them. - Ruckert