Hermann Hesse Quotes

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

I feel like a young man of 15.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

You need to have new people, young people that are super excited and super eager to get in there anytime we're doing something dangerous action-wise. It's pretty annoying but I get it, I understand the enthusiasm, I just give it a little time.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

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

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.

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

I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.