254 quotes found
“The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!”
“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier years of my life left me, was alien and lost to me. I suddenly saw how ...”
“Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand”
“O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of some one dead you have loved. I shall ne...”
“Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.”
“It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain a...”
“ For, if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.”
“It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. I...”
“Positively, the delinquent behavior seems to speak clearly enough. It asks for what we cant give, but it is in this direction we must go. It asks for manly opportunities to work, make a little mone...”
“This is the Supernova," he said. "Any time he gets worked up, his body bursts into white-hot light that disintegrates anything around him. That's how I felt when I was growing up. Everything I had ...”
“The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature ...”
“I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.”
“Fame is the thirst of youth.”
“In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety...”
“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”
“Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age. ”
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
“In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.”
