254 quotes found
“For at this stage in our youth we can hold two kinds of anticipation of love, which seem contradictory and yet coexist and reinforce each other. We can dream delicately because even to imagine it i...”
“Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted...”
“ 'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.”
“To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221”
“She had the wild look of someone who hadnt slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.”
“What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?”
“I can never see why people should be jealous. After all, youth isn't a matter of privilege, we all get the same share of it. Some people may be born at an easier time or be richer or more privilege...”
“Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. S...”
“You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something and you cant. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor lit...”
“He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Wa...”
“Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.”
“Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.”
“And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.”
“When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting,Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.”
“...because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.”
“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.”
“In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.”
“We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow”
“Who was it who said something about the Indians being argumentative, good soul, let him come to Haridwar and meet this bunch. Good for him too, if he adapts with age; for if after fifty you don't l...”
“A need for many candles may arise in every nations history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!”
