Youthful Exuberance Quotes

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

Too fast to live, too young to die.

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

I've been like this forever. I'm sweeter, probably, but me and my homegirls were a little buckwild, ya know? And it only got worse.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

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

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

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.