Youth
Quotes - MOTHER IS WATER
“All
I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my
life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself”
―
Zelda Fitzgerald
“I
am not a broken heart.
I am
not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left
or didn’t know how to handle anything,
at
any time,
and
I am not your fault.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson
“Asleep,
he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny
looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people
are younger when they are asleep.”
― S.
E. Hinton
“He
owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter,
and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick
bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for
they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front
of a camera.”
―
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
“I
want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little
bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want
to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to
learn how to unlock the locks to our minds, my mind, so that when I hear
opinions or views that don’t match up with mine, I can still listen and
understand. I want to burn up lifeless habits of following maps and to-do
lists, concentrated liquids to burn my mind and throat
and
I want to go back to the way nature shaped me. I want to learn to go on well
with whatever I have in my hands at the moment
in a
natural state of mind,
certain
like the sea.
I
will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson
“You
know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused
for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true,
some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At
birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information,
no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard
drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the
files.”
―
Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“I
love the stillness of the wood;
I
love the music of the rill:
I
love the couch in pensive mood
Upon
some silent hill.
Scarce
heard, beneath yon arching trees,
The
silver-crested ripples pass;
and,
like a mimic brook, the breeze
Whispers
among the grass.
Here
from the world I win release,
Nor
scorn of men, nor footstep rude,
Break
into mar the holy peace
Of
this great solitude.
Here
may the silent tears I weep
Lull
the vested spirit into rest,
As
infants sob themselves to sleep
Upon
a mothers breast.
But
when the bitter hour is gone,
And
the keen throbbing pangs are still,
Oh,
sweetest then to couch alone
Upon
some silent hill!
To
live in joys that once have been,
To
put the cold world out of sight,
And
deck life's drear and barren scene
With
hues of rainbow-light.
For
what to man the gift of breath,
If
sorrow be his lot below;
If
all the day that ends in death
Be
dark with clouds of woe?
Shall
the poor transport of an hour
Repay
long years of sore distress—
The
fragrance of a lonely flower
Make
glad the wilderness?
Ye
golden house of life's young spring,
Of
innocence, of love and truth!
Bright,
beyond all imagining,
Thou
fairy-dream of youth!
I'd
give all wealth that years have piled,
The
slow result of Life's decay,
To
be once more a little child
For
one bright summer's day.”
―
Lewis Carroll
“I
feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're
an artist, by children if you're not.”
―
Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“Some
details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a
person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane
or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry
fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of
their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating
on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early
days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate
delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life.
("Paper boats forever" )”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“MOTHER
IS WATER
I
wish I could
Shower
your head with flowers
And
anoint your feet with my tears,
For
I know I have caused you
So
much heartache, frustration and despair –
Throughout
my youthful years.
I
wish I could give you
The
remainder of my life
To
add to yours,
Or
simply erase
The
lines on your face,
And
mend all that has been torn.
For
next to God,
You
are the fire
That
has given light
To
the flame in each of my eyes.
You
are the fountain
That
nourished my growth,
And
from your chalice –
Gave
me life.
Without
the wetness of your love,
The
fragrance of your water,
Or
the trickling sounds of
Your
voice,
I
shall always feel
thirsty.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I
shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing
toward my destination: Nowhere.”
―
Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
“Does
everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or
insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or
that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed.
When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took
was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless.
Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I
experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.”
―
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
“It's
such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're
going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do
I know? I swear it's a stupid question.”
―
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Strange
to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young."
"Yes!
It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to
get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you
won't ever be back.”
―
Andrew Sean Greer, Less
