Quotes about youth

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

But to be young was very heaven!

Many are our joys

In youth, but oh! what happiness to live

When every hour brings palpable access

Of knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,

And sorrow is not there!

I was young then, and much more courteous to older people — and to everyone else, for that matter, as I look back on it — than I should have been. Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time — time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not of the dangers lurking beneath those pleasures, till too late to avoid them.

“It’s good being young,” he said, “but some people wear it better than others.”

She could remember the girl she used to be with fondness, but it wasn’t a youth she cared to recapture.

“Age,” Quentin heard him mutter. “It’s wasted on the young. Just like youth.”

And I wasn’t old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.

The wind and sun, the salt water, the hard work aged a body rapidly, and when I would look at the old man who clammed, I was too young to sense the wisdom their years on the water had bestowed upon them and saw only what I did not want to become.

Filidor marveled at the intransigence of adolescence, not remembering that he had possessed an abundance of the same quality not many years since.

It was easy for someone to stay young if he refused to learn, refused to adapt to his lot in life, and refused to fight to change his circumstances in accordance with his will.

In his student days he was known for a sharp slanderous tongue, for irreverence to his seniors, for drinking and gaming for high stakes. But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?