And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. —Douglas Coupland in Life After God More about this quote Tags: failure youth sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If youth knew; if age could. —Sigmund Freud More about this quote Tags: age youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: youth old people circulation denunciation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What does 'I love you' even mean? It's weird how different three words can feel. I mean, I've said it before but it's never felt so… big, you know? I'm not sure it meant the same thing then. Like, I was too young to get it. —Christina Lauren in Beautiful Stranger More about this quote Tags: love knowledge youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What I know at sixty I knew at twenty. Forty years of superfluous verification. —Emil Cioran More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty age youth verification Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humor knowledge youth lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. —Lois McMaster Bujold in Diplomatic Immunity More about this quote Tags: risk chance youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You're never too old to become younger. —Mae West More about this quote Tags: age youth younger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. —Spike Milligan More about this quote Tags: humor youth body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: music youth listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email