Youth Quotes

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can’t understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return…

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young…

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them…

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the f*** did I get old so soon?

Realise your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing…

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.