#youth

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#invention #judgment #talent #youth

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#calm #coldly #exchange #eyes #given

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#love #reminiscence #youth #love

When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#love #youth #love

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth. ↗

— Daniel Prokop

#growing-up #humor #maturity #never-growing-up #humor

I would be lying if I said I didn't get a kick out of the assignment. Here I am, a "troubled youth," and my self-chosen treatment is to become a stalker. Okay, not stalker. Research Analyst. ↗

— Lindsey Leavitt

#humor #lindsey-leavitt #research #sean-griswold-s-head #stalker

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness. ↗

— Len Deighton

#love #selfishness #ss-gb #youth #love

Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is! ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #downtown #dream #food #law-school

Fools – in other words most people – imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; but those who know life are aware how little it would profit us. ("A Woman's Vengeance") ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#imagination

I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal! ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #immortal #time #youth #funny