Victor Hugo Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

• Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Taken, Men

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.379, Wildside Press LLC

• Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

  Victor Hugo

  Youth, Stranger

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

  Victor Hugo

  Sorrow, Youth

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

• O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Thorns, Youth

• When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

  Victor Hugo

  Memories, Disappointment, Fire

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