Youth
Quotes - To forget is the secret of eternal youth
“youth
is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
―
Aristotle
“Things
aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say
things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them,
because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to
look a darker place as you slide into the grave.”
―
Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
“In
war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
―
T.H. White, The Once and Future King
“To
forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory.
There's much too little forgetting.”
―
Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
“Happy,
happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days;
that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport
the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own
fire-side and his quiet home!”
―
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
“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
“Life
goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”
―
David Levithan, Marly's Ghost
“But
youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There
is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things,
or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would
gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he
cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man...”
―
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within
a Budding Grove
“Adolescence is
like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.”
―
Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
“Children
are very wise
intuitively;
they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
―
V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
“I
had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the
loss”
―
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Why
do you want to be on The Real World?
-Because
I want everyone to witness my youth
Why?
-Isn't
it gorgeous?”
―
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“It
is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone
the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to
which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from
returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that
sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it;
and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was
alone.”
―
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“That's
the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long,
you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“I believe
in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people
know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”
―
Ann Richards
“It
felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like
nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into
youth.”
―
China Miéville, Embassytown
“It
was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be
young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against
my color with no chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should
like to see us all dead, one on top of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the
whitefolks on the bottom, as the broad base, then the Indians with their silly
tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the Negroes with their mops and
recipes and cotton sacks and spirituals sticking out of their mouths. The Dutch
children should all stumble in their wooden shoes and break their necks. The
French should choke to death on the Louisiana Purchase (1803) while silkworms
ate all the Chinese with their stupid pigtails. As a species, we were an
abomination. All of us.”
―
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The
secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around
them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely
until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns.
Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the
rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young
people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to
solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young
people is imbecile.”
―
Alvin Toffler
“When
things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and
went to sleep”
―
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“So
they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my
emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer
without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes
that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up
little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking
louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears,
writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to
arrive.
I've
been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up,
maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so
alive, sober and not so sober.
(I
lost track of the difference somewhere in between.)”
―
Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great
Perhaps
“A
dog can be a ‘significant other’ as it infuses a magic fluid stream of
oxytocin, trust, ease, and patience; and transforms a man’s life into a
paradise of complicity and mutual sympathy, arousing at the same time an
instinct of playfulness that many people have lost since their young age and
that puts things in new perspectives.( "I am young and have no dog")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“It
was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's
too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to
handle it.”
―
Scott Spencer, Endless Love
“In
the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what
period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays
“It
felt like waiting for something to happen. Which has to be the worst part of
being young. So many of your decisions aren't yours; they're made by other
people. Sometimes they're made badly by other people. Sometimes they're made by
other people who have no idea what the consequences of those decisions might
be. The bastards.”
―
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“At
fifteen I set my heart upon learning.
At
thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground.
At
forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities.
At
fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven.
At
sixty, I heard them with docile ear.
At
seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no
longer overstepped the boundaries of right.”
―
Confucius
“Yet
the upcoming year was going to be a new phase of my life. I would get to follow
my big brother to the big house. I had reached that golden age of six. Finally,
I was going to experience the real deal. This was no appetizer, or tater tots,
or French fries. This was the whole Ore-Ida. I would be amongst thechaos like
all the neighborhood kids. Everyone that knew Jerry would get to know me, too. Since
we were at Aunt Kathy’s, I had to curtail my exuberance. We had nothing like
the freedom at mom’s shack. So, I did my best to remain out of sight. But those
efforts were futile. School was just hours away. I really couldn’t contain
myself without medication or God forbid, a good old-fashioned ass beating.
Well,
Aunt Kathy implored me to settle down. She kept issuing threat after threat
with such statements, “Boy, do I needto beat the black off of you,” or “Gorilla
will be your name when
I’m
finish!” Yes, I got the message but beating my butt wasn’t going to be enough.
Heck, I had been waiting for three long, long years just to join Jerry.
Anything short of a bullet wasn’t going to stop me.”
―
Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
