Doors Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.”

— Diane Medved

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

— Barbara Mertz

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent…

— John Irving

“It is a poignant truth of our heedless youthful years, that the events and encounters of a single night can so alter the course…

— Iolanthe Woulff

Time, the subtle thief of youth

— John Milton

“Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in…

— Pamela Redmond Satran

“He seemed even younger now, as though he were traveling backwards in time, in his mind, or merely becoming innocent, as if the dead,…

— Anne Rice

The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.

— Kate Morton

“youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature…

— kate chopin

“When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.”

— Amit Kalantri

“She lay with her face to the wall, muttering low, but muttering always: Alas! alas! what is done in youth can never be undone…

— Elizabeth Gaskell