#youth

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#boy #company #completely #grown #grown man

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#better #better world #bringing #comfortable #decay

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar. ↗

— Trevor Horn

#business #first #go #grammar #him

When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me-- that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#age

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#youth #age

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#gender #womanhood #women #youth #age

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. ↗

— Megan Chance

#old #women #youth #age

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#ageing #colour #excitement #perspective #youth

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! ↗

— Théophile Thoré

#carpe-diem #inspiration #regret #youth #age

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#age