It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Adults are obsolete children.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Every loss of life is terrible.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.