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A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 624
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Chapter XXIXIn context
- Happiness
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
- Happiness
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol’n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
John Milton1608–1674On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three (1631)
- Age
- Time
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Ogden Nash1902–1971
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Dawn of Day (1881), § 297
- Thinking
Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
The path to youth takes a whole life.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato429–349 BCThe Laws (Plato’s last and longest dialogue)
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love⁠—
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
- Love
Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II
- Advice
We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Patrick Rothfussborn 1973The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 88)
- Children
You snug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Siegfried Sassoon1886–1967Suicide in the Trenches (1918)In context
- War & Peace