#youth

تخيلات الشباب عن الشيخوخة ضلال، تخيلات الشيخوخة عن الشباب حسرات. ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#life #old #youth #life

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#life

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted. ↗

— Roman Payne

#aging #growing-old #life #payne #time

The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, like I had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope. ↗

— José Emilio Pacheco

#youth #age

She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it. ↗

— Richard J. O'Brien

#beautiful #beauty #teen #youth #age

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#immortality #mediocrities #love

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#youth #age

But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.' It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#expectation #happiness #jane-austen #love #peter-bushell

Orsino: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. ... For women are as roses, whose fair flow'r Being once display'd doth fall that very hour. Viola: And so they are; alas, that they are so! To die, even when they to perfection grow! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #youth #love

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes. ↗

— George Eliot

#youth #men