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QUOTES ON YOUTH


The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

JOHN STEINBECK, East of Eden

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

HOMER, The Iliad

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

ANTON CHEKHOV, The Cherry Orchard

Youth, my good friend, you certainly require
When foes in battle round you press,
When a fair maid, her heart on fire,
Hangs on your neck with fond caress,
When from afar, the victor's crown,
Allures you in the race to run;
Or when in revelry you drown
Your sense, the whirling dance being done.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I
Thou know’st the o’er-eager vehemence of youth,
How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

HOMER, The Iliad

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

JANE AUSTEN, Sense and Sensibility

Youth's a stuff will not endure.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night

My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra

He wears the rose
Of youth upon him.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra

The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Lolita

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