#youth

Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#age

Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable, for it affects only the worse half of life, and in addition to advantages it also entails uncertainty, exhausting activity and upheaval of settled habits. Youth is substantially better off: it is not burdened by guilt, and the revolution can accept young people in toto. The uncertainty of revolutionary times is an advantage for youth, because it is the world of the fathers that is challenged. How exciting to enter into the age of maturity over the shattered ramparts of the adult world! ↗

— Milan Kundera

#youth #age

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#day #days #long #old #old age

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. ↗

— Colum McCann

#youth-age #age

Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now ↗

— Bob Dylan

#song-lyrics #young-at-heart #youthful-arrogance #life

I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#art

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them. ↗

— Troy Soos

#vanity #youth #humor

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off. ↗

— Harry Melling

#am #around #before #career #clowns

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me? ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#growing-up #identity #youth #beauty

Beauty lies in one’s heart and sex lies in one mind. It all depends on where your belief lies. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

#insipirational #love #youth #beauty