#youth

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#wisdom #youth #death

She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath. ↗

— Kat Rosenfield

#cry #death #youth #death

Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#youth #dreams

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#children #letters-to-monica #philip-larkin #poem #poet

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country? ↗

— George Washington

#government #liberty #politics #youth #communication

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? ↗

— Confucius

#youth #equality

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#growing-up #innocence #life #loss-of-innocence #truths

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#foolishness #youth #experience

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

To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#age