Richard Hell Quotes

Youth is wasted on the young.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

The young may be pure in heart, but they are also high on emotion and short on life experience. Simply put, they are natural philistines.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

When I was young, I was everywhere.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.