Willa Cather Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

  Willa Cather

  Youth

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.36, U of Nebraska Press

• When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

  Willa Cather

  Desire, Looks, Want

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.256, Courier Corporation

• To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

  Willa Cather

  Dream, Men, Youth

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

  Willa Cather

  Heart, Goes On, Matter

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

• The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Age, Goes On

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

• youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

  Willa Cather

  Hurt, Betrayed, Likes

  Willa Cather (1937). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

• Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

  Willa Cather

  Summer, Dream, Art

  Willa Cather (1986). “Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929”, p.52, U of Nebraska Press

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