Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
He knows he’s aged a lot: he sees it, feels it. Yet it seems he was young just yesterday. So brief an interval, so very brief.
Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
The old man was once young but the young is not sure that will be old.
Indian high chiefs were frolicking freely with young Arawak beauties.... Barons and Marquis from the court of Louis XIV were playing leapfrog on the grass.... In the motley crowd, I also saw Simon Bolivar.... The time of masks had assembled three centuries of human history.
When one is young, is too soon. When one is old, is too late.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.”
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
I have met many young men, who have the skeletons of the old covered by the garb of youth. On the other hand, I have met many elderly people who are weighed down by age but beneath the cloud there lies the glorious sun of youth.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
The culture of social and mass media is very restless and hectic and frenzied. This is going to make the human psyche, especially among young people here, very volatile
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
“I am not young enough to know everything.
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.