fleeting nature of youth Quotes

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Youth passes like a dream.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.