If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

Andre Gide
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 Andre Gide
  1. One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

  2. The scholar seeks the artist finds.

  3. A work of art is an exaggeration.

  4. A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

  5. Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!

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