Youth Quotes - I do not expect old heads on young
shoulders
“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were
born.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt
whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like
certainties.”
― Mary Karr, Lit
“Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I
conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.”
― Nathan Fillion
“But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I
tell him.
Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.'
'What?'
'No I don't.'
There's a pause and then I ask, 'Oh, shit, Rip, What don't
you have?'
'I don't have anything to loose.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading
program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a
cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked
field hockey better?”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and
damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would
be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.”
― Shelley Winters
“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is
a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is
a substitute for intelligence.”
― Lyman Bryson
“Grown people know that they do not always know the way
of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how
they got the proof.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be
firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the
age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that
means we're good with our mouths too...
(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“what's right? If you want something, you have the
right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”
― Bret Easton Ellis
“You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never
been so happy. What does that say about me?”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume,
charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private
ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
“Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
“In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible
to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is
therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able
to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew”
― Robert Browning, Jocoseria
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less
and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I
should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh
words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a
legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.”
― Germany Kent
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my
safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
“I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all
about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong
road.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
“Gloomy room
immersed in a scent
of modern cowards
filled with
shapeless creatures
sitting in silence
because they have
nothing to say
Fake plastic faces
with a grimace
of disappointment
painted on them
Are we stuck on hold
expecting our turn
in a waiting room
of so-called
lost generation?”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon
“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he
cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for
he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“for whenever men are right they are not young”
― E.E. Cummings, 22 and 50 Poems
