#youth

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#charm #youth #age

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aging #color #growth #old-age #peach

The first door in the hall leads to youth, the second door leads to middle age, and the third door leads to the bathroom. But knock first, because I think grandpa’s in there. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bathroom #door #family #grandpa #hall

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#elderly #youth #age

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#youth #age

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. ↗

— Philip Larkin

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

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #life #morality #youth #age

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. ↗

— Gayla Reid

#hope #life #life-experience #memories #old

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young. ↗

— Glenway Wescott

#life #luck #youth #age