Absurdity Quote by Jane Austen

“But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret”

— Jane Austen

Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not being able to do so again.

— Pierre Benoit

The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

— Tim Curry

“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

“It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as though it…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Silly youth and presumptuous senility: the world remains the same as always...”

— Jeff Ampolini

“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

“Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not…

— Mary Balogh

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

— Anne Bronte

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

— Charles Fourier