#youth

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#youth #age

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#letters-to-monica #philip-larkin #poem #poet #poetry

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #life #morality #youth #age

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. ↗

— Gayla Reid

#hope #life #life-experience #memories #old

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young. ↗

— Glenway Wescott

#life #luck #youth #age

The rich old men start the wars, but it’s the poor young men who portend them. If they didn't get old and rich, some excuse might have to be found to launch invasions. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #old-age #poverty #war #wealth

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#chaos #wisdom #youth #age

All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald. ↗

— Harley King

#athletes #bald #hair #hippies #youth

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth... ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#youth #age