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If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Christine (1983), Pt. 1, Ch. 5
- Life & Death
- Maturity
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As “fail”.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Richelieu (1839)
- Failure
- Youth
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
- Youth
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Address to the 75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974)
- War & Peace
- Youth
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom’s Day.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864“Wakefield” (1835) from Twice Told Tales (1837, 1851)
- Time
- Youth
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening,
the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #160
- Forgiveness
- Youth
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book VIII, Chapter 4
- Youth
One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you’re tired.
George Carlin1937–2008It’s Bad for Ya (2008), “Getting old”
- Comedy
Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you’re twenty.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 147
- Youth
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Either/Or (1843), Vol. I, Diapsalmata (tr. David F. and Lillian Marvin Swenson)
- Youth
Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Youth
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican national convention (27 June 1944)
- War & Peace
- Youth
When irony first makes itself known in a young man’s life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.
Robertson Davies1913–1995The Cunning Man (1994), Part 2, section 6.
- Youth
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
James Baldwin1924–1987“The Harlem Ghetto” originally in Commentary (February 1948)
- Race
- Youth