#youth

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#comes #end #end of the world #episode #every

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#am #approve #body #follows #him

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

Youth is a period of missed opportunities. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#opportunities #period #youth

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty #gloria-gilbert #youth #age

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. ↗

— Helen Garner

#behaviour #destructive #destructiveness #disturbing #echoes

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#american youth #atmosphere #breathes #ideas #leftist

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#american #been #completely #deceived #forces

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#everything #lot #many #more #only

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#culture #eternal #eternal youth #interested #people