Chris Carmack Quotes

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

You're investing in a different part of your life that is really important. It's not as important when you're a kid and you don't require sleep, and you don't get hung over, and you can fire on all cylinders. At 32 I don't consider myself old by any means, but you just find yourself in a place where you can't do everything the way you once did, and you have to take time to reflect and I think that's really important, because you get to appreciate what you have, and to enjoy it.

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

I think all Geminis are kids at heart. And that's why they're able to simplify some of the most complex things and connect with people. It's having that kid spirit.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.