Youth Quotes - Our freedoms are vanishing
“There are boys lying awake, hating themselves. There
are boys screwing for the right reasons and boys screwing for the wrong ones.
There are boys sleeping on benches and under bridges, and luckier unlucky boys
sleeping in shelters, which feel like safety but not like home. There are boys
so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to
get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking
at their pain. There are boys who clutch secrets at night in the same way they
clutch denial in the day. There are boys who do not think of themselves at all
when they dream. There are boys who will be woken in the night. There are boys
who fall asleep with phones to their ears.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
“The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her
meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be
a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature takes
no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and
which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories
“Few, if any, survive their teens.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes
do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something — and you can’t. Not from any
fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little — not a
thing in the world — not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 600-ton
cargo of coal to its port of destination.”
― Joseph Conrad, Youth, a Narrative
“Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only
trying on one face after another till he finds his own.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith, All trivia: Trivia, More
trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words
“At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven,
you were a poet.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active
to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one
of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more
riskier — and much, much harder.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings
of Suzy Kassem
“In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were
moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an
earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he
carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities.”
― Brenna Yovanoff
“We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and
not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we
didn't know anything yet.”
― Hilary Winston
“For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what
there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another
without necessarily belonging to one another.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no
living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.”
― Roman Payne, Hope and Despair
“How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we
are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by
accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or
determination on our part.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
“I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to
look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I
died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at
me.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
“The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old
child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right
man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child
is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.”
― George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie
“And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed,
Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated
as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated
for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my
girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs
“When you’re growing up, it takes a long time for you
to realize that there’s something different about you. On one level, you know
there’s something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever
knew.”
― Brooke Stevens, The Circus of the Earth and the Air
“She was not too young to be wise, but she was too
young to know that wisdom
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.”
― Graham Greene, Loser Takes All
