Lost Youth Quotes

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

Before i knew the best part of my life had come ,it had gone.

Youth passes like a dream.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

All Quiet on the Western Front.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.