Lost Youth Quotes:

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社

topic: Eye, Quiet Moments, Lost Youth, Ashley Wilkes

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Birthday, Lost Youth, Mourning, Middle Ages

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

- Sophia Loren

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Birthday, Uplifting, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Birthday, Art, Age, Staying Young, Milestone Birthday

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1614, eBookIt.com

topic: Truth, Real, Youth, Lost Youth, Bruised

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Inspiring, Graduation, Dream, Lost Youth

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Happy Birthday, Time, Children, Young Mother, Wonderful Experience

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Long, Youth, Lost Youth

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

- Betty Friedan

source: "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

topic: Birthday, Strength, Inspiring, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Jack Benny

topic: Mind, Age, Matter, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

- Erich Maria Remarque

topic: War, Giving, Would Be, War Movie, Birdsong

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

topic: Memories, Lost Love, Together, Lost Youth

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.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Opportunity, Bad Ass, Role Models, Lost Youth, Stages Of Life

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

- Betty Friedan

source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

topic: Strength, Freedom, Voice, Mystique, Lost Youth

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Women, History, Alive, Burying, Mystique

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

- Betty Friedan

source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

topic: Women, Being A Woman, Enjoy, Lost Youth, Feminine Mystique

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

- Tara Brach

topic: Lost Love, Heart, Love Life, Lost Youth, Humanness Is

The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Country, Names, Justice, Mystique, Kept Woman

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Dream, Pain, Memories, Disillusion, Lost Youth

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Ideas, Voice, Lost Youth

What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Past, Reality, Thinking, Mans Search For Meaning, Work Done

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Moving, World, Youth, Lost Youth, Tender Is The Night