«Youth»

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

(Tales of the Jazz Age)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

(Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson)

Thomas S. Monson

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Aristotle

I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

P.G. Wodehouse

Enjoy your youth.

You’ll never be younger than

you are at this very moment.

Chad Sugg

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

(The Girl Who Chased the Moon)

Sarah Addison Allen

In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you’re just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless.

(Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit)

Victoria Moran

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

(The Life and Wisdom of Confucius)

Confucius

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

(2010: Odyssey Two)

Arthur C. Clarke

If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings.

(What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)

Haruki Murakami

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.

(Of Human Bondage)

W. Somerset Maugham

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Milan Kundera

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Karl Lagerfeld

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

(Love Is a Mix Tape)

Rob Sheffield

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

(Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage)

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

(Anansi Boys)

Neil Gaiman

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

(Into the Wild)

Jon Krakauer

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Ogden Nash

When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You’re your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don’t yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

(The Blind Assassin)

Margaret Atwood

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

(Gertrude)

Hermann Hesse

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

(This Side of Paradise)

F. Scott Fitzgerald