Youth
Quotes - Youth is an intoxication without wine
“The
real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.”
―
Nouman Ali Khan
“I
never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the
conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing
because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You
need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need
to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build
your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or
material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the
natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great
Perhaps
“Like
its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.”
―
J.B. Priestley
“She
had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time
for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old
people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.”
―
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
“The
young need discipline and a full bookcase.”
―
Vivienne Westwood
“We
try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from
bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons are
learned through observation and experience. Perhaps we'd be better off training
our youth to be highly observant.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry
for Every Day of the Year
“I
don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't
like it because I don't know how to get on with them.”
―
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
“I
covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the
games of youth.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Prose and Poetry
“Running
in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight”
―
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“It's
my duty as a human being to be pissed off”
―
Eric Bogosian, subUrbia
“It
must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”
―
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
“Some
are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to
be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they
don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is
to be somebody. ”
―
Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson
“It's
the beautiful thing about youth.
There's
a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been
made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited
potential.”
―
Blake Crouch, Dark Matter
“There
were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of
them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in
love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.”
―
Poppy Z. Brite, The Value of X
“This
world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a
temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage
over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”
―
Robert F. Kennedy
“Through
all of youth I was looking for you
without
knowing what I was looking for”
―
W.S. Merwin
“I'm
young as morning
and
fresh as dew.
Everybody
loves me
and
so do you.”
―
Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved
“Wisdom
When
I have ceased to break my wings
Against
the faultiness of things,
And
learned that compromises wait
Behind
each hardly opened gate,
When
I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown
calm and very coldly wise,
Life
will have given me the Truth,
And
taken in exchange -- my youth.”
―
Sara Teasdale, Love Songs
“Cover
her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”
―
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
“You
young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop
talking.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“A
living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young
people these days?”
―
Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
“Youth
is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The
only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it
as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk.
The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in
some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate
questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and
burn Omar.”
―
W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man
“There
will always be those
who
say you are too young and delicate
to
make anything happen for yourself.
They
don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't
let their doubting drown out
the
sound of your own heartbeat.
You
are the first drop of rain in a hurricane.
Your
bravery builds beyond you.
You
are needed by all the little girls
still
living in secret, writing oceans
made
of monsters, and
throwing
like lightning.
You
don't need to grow up
to
find greatness.
You
are so much stronger than the world
has
ever believed you could be.
The
world is waiting for you
to
set it on fire. Trust in yourself
and
burn.”
―
Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers
“Some
people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply
wouldn't do.”
―
Russell Brand
“A
boy's will is the wind's will,
And
the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
―
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
