Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand

Milan Kundera
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. - Oscar Wilde

  4. To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. - Maya Angelou

  5. Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why?- Isn't it gorgeous? - Dave Eggers

More Quotes By Milan Kundera
  1. Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

  2. You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

  3. Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for...

  4. He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  5. I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Related Topics