Young people Quote by Emma Straub

“The things that had seemed important to a twenty-five-year-old weren’t important to a thirty-year-old. Now, life had meaning.”

— Heather Burch

“The young people I loved have probably been wiped away by the real world, existing only as they once were in my memories.”

— Sophia Danton The Bull Years

“I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But”

— Charles Dickens

“He knew that the disdain for death and crazy courage of youngsters stemmed from a lack of imagination.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“There was a time in my life when I believed I could have a place in the world, that I deserved bigger things than…

— Sarah Schmidt

“It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not…

— Paullina Simons

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“But that age … exerts on us An almost terrible charm, Like the memory of things seen And a life lived in dreams.”

— Heinrich Heine

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl