For, if after fifty you don’t live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.

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

Who was it who said something about the Indians being argumentative, good soul, let him come to Haridwar and meet this bunch. Good for him too, if he adapts with age; for if after fifty...

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we...

Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which...

It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we found each other’s hands in the dark. No chains or promises, just a...

No one’s serious at seventeen,When lindens line the promenades

You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

Heroes in fact die with one’s youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies were always blue, the sun shone and the air was filled with the...

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were instantly soaked. She flung up her arms to the sky. Power ran to...

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

So remember those who win the gameLose the love they sought to gainIn debitures of quality and dubious integrityTheir small-town eyes will gape at youIn dull surprise when payment dueExceeds accounts received at seventeen

If all the centenarians formed their own country, they’d be both the youngest country in the world, and the oldest.

Look here, it’s all very tidy and convenient to see the world in black and white,’ said the Major, trying to soften his tone slightly. ‘It’s a particular passion of young men eager to sweep...

Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn’t it gorgeous?

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future...

Friday dusk becomes Friday evening. The park is feverish with life. A young Asian man screams into his mobile phone, not stopping to listen: a young man with his heart in his penis.

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

Me pareció injusto que un idiota como Jason Worthington pudiera tener sexo con Margo y con Becca, cuando individuos perfectamente agradables como yo no tienen el privilegio de tener sexo con ninguna de las dos.....

Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they’re catching on that it doesn’t even matter if you don’t...

When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.

Il avait encore la peau recouverte d’acné juvénile et, pour que ça ne se voie pas, il portait sur son visage le masque de la révolte.

Tender Ember…Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above…

The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, likeI had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.

Diese jungen Menschen hatten keine Wünsche, keine Überzeugungen, geschweige denn Ideale, sie strebten keinen bestimmten Beruf an, wollten weder politischen Einfluss noch eine glückliche Familie, keine Kinder, keine Hausiere und keine Heimat, und sehnten sich...

You know, it’s pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still...

But there was little heart to our lust,only the confusion of not knowinghow long we’d have in our bodies.

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for

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

We can’t allow, in my perception, our traditions, which in the Bible are really looked down upon, to stop, literally, the potential of the gospel reaching the youth of America.

I don’t ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same thing in middle age just makes you nervous, not with vague puritan guilt...

I’d like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth’s the right...

Be game–take a chance–don’t hide behind veils and veils of discretion… Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as you see them. You are new evidence, fresh and young. Your work, the...

But he had been the victim of the world’s most common crime—his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely also been raped, dismembered, and buried somewhere never to be seen...

He was like a brother to all of them. He was a part of their youth, and now that is gone.

There are two times in a person’s life when there is the possibility of pure happiness: in youth and in summer.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

When you’re finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that,...

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

People get bitten. But I won’t.’ I found myself saying, ‘You will, you will. These snakes don’t know you find death inconceivable. They don’t know you’re young and strong and you think death applies to...

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

Youth always has its advantages.

Politics is clearly a not so happening topic in our young blood. I could clearly see many students yawning. Some might have been discussing the new Shakira video amongst themselves, the one shown on MTV...