Youth Quotes - Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise
“Enjoy
your youth.
You'll
never be younger than
you
are at this very moment.”
―
Chad Sugg
“For
age is opportunity no less
Than
youth itself, though in another dress,
And
as the evening twilight fades away
The
sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
―
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“So
you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name.
And
you can not build walls, must not close the door and please don’t hide, because
if you ask me about hurt and love
I
will say love. Love because the hurt will come and go no matter what, but only
love makes it worth while. Only love can cure it.
Don’t
be scared. Go. Love.”
― Charlotte
Eriksson
“How
to win in life:
1
work hard
2
complain less
3
listen more
4
try, learn, grow
5
don't let people tell you it cant be done
6
make no excuses”
―
Germany Kent
“Being
sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't
seem like such a great prospect.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
“The
langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how
irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the
despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go
with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor -
the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and
self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing
to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.”
―
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
“She
looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children
arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still
curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.”
―
Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
“A
youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not
be equal to our present?”
―
Confucius, The Life and Wisdom of Confucius
“I’m
learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go
as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time
zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts
to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leavers. It hurts to
accept that it hurts and it hurts to learn how easy it is for people to not
need other people. Or how easy it is to need other people but that you can
never build a home in someone’s arms because they will let go one day and you
must build your own.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving
& Arriving
“The
beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we
combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of
God.”
―
Brett Harris
“The
young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in
youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the
heart.”
―
Rabindranath Tagore, Lover's Gift
“Where
ignorance is bliss,
'Tis
folly to be wise.
-
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”
―
Thomas Gray, Gray and Collins: Poetical Works
“It
was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much
as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of
living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized
mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom,
wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the
misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for
all, rather than equality for equals.”
―
Trevanian, Shibumi
“He
had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite,
such impatience for the story to begin.”
―
Ian McEwan, Atonement
“Young
people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet
and they are growing.”
―
Aristotle
“Until
recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge
of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the
older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years
before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless
horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”
―
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“from
what we cannot hold the stars are made”
―
W.S. Merwin
“I
come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard
sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is
'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still
freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches
as I leave the light.”
―
Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
“Senseless
violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for
the constructive.”
―
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
“As
Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call
us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's
also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been
discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most
part, we wouldn't have it any other way.”
―
Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
“But
thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And
beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,
And
tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d
To
dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal
age beside immortal youth,
And
all I was, in ashes.
-
Tithonus”
―
Alfred Lord Tennyson
