Clouded Quote by Anne Bronte

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and…

— Marya Mannes

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of…

— Anne Brontë

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

— Cleveland Abbe

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have…

— Michael Cunningham

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

— Felix Bloch

“Youth is a gift that goes largely unappreciated by its proprietor. Like a single raindrop falling on hot pavement it evaporates before your eyes…

— Rob Wood

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for…

— Christopher Nuttall

“Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely”

— Sunday Adelaja

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the…

— George Santayana

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

— Larry Wall