Quotes about Youth

A delightful sense of being very young and free in a civilization that was very old and free.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet

A man can be twice young in the life of his sons only.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

They were walking through the March twilight where it was as warm as June, and the joy of youth filled his soul so that he felt he must speak. 'I think,' he said and his voice trembled, 'that if I lost faith in you I'd lose faith in God.' She looked at him with such a started face that he asked her the matter. 'Nothing,' she said slowly, 'only this: five men have said that to me before, and it frightens me.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. Again

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

Fitness has nothing to do with age.