Only Young Once Quotes

#1. Once when he was still young, I saw a bit of his scalp showing through his hair and I was afraid. But it was just a cowlick. Now sometimes it shows through for real, but I feel only tenderness.

Jenny Offill

#2. You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#3. Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just ... wonder.

Dodie Smith

#4. Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Edwin Louis Cole

#5. Because we grow up, Filip,' Tedros exhaled. 'When you're young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.

Soman Chainani

#6. You're only young once. That is all society can stand.

Jane Seabrook

#7. The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating; later you realize you were only ever drunk on your own vision.

Jennifer DuBois

#8. I've made a habit of falling in love with cities I've never been to
And every once in a while I get the opportunity to be reckless
Under the guise that I'm only young once and stupidity is a state
I must learn the hard way

Marie Gibson

#9. It is quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away util they simply no longer matter. -pg. 114.

Wm. Paul Young

#10. You killed me." My voice was unsteady.

He held me close again. "I brought you back."

"Please tell me we only have to do that once."

He whispered against my ear, "I swear I won't kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die." It was a bad joke

Catrina Burgess

#11. The dark held new meaning for me now. There was a whole other world out there that I was just beginning to discover ... A world that had once been only farce was now very real. -Abby Sullivan; Redemption

Kellie Thacker

#12. Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!

Laura Donnelly

#13. An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.

Richard Engel

#14. True, I only properly started talking with Todd half an hour ago, but every instance of undying love was only half an hour young, once upon a time.

David Mitchell

#15. Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. Perhaps the reason memoirs are so often written by the young these days is that, once you reach a certain age, only fiction might allow you to truly make your way back to childhood.

Tom Engelhardt

#17. If we could only go back and knock some sense into those kids we once were.

Samantha Young

#18. Just remember, you can only be young and dumb once. And that is a fine specimen to be young and dumb with.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#19. To waste
this heart once more
& have you
here, not silent, only
quiet, as before.

Kevin Young

#20. I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

Rebecca Johns

#21. Young lord, one marries only once in life and one does not do so lightly.

Shin Jae

#22. If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn't know what happened to people once they were unfixable. I only hoped I never had to find out.

Cole Gibsen

#23. You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Ogden Nash

#24. I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

Douglas Coupland

#25. You're only young once.

Dyan Sheldon

#26. You're only young once, but you can be immature forever

Germaine Greer

#27. So strong of will is this young man, to come back from the dead, to accuse me now, in my bed, where even my wife fears to be. Do these uninvited visitors seek vengeance? Maybe I do? Maybe I want that for them, but they are so many, and I am one man. They must know I can only die once.

Craig B. Phillips

#28. You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

#29. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter.

Wm. Paul Young

#30. I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

Pat Conroy

#31. You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.

Timothy Schaffert

#32. Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#33. Only once, and only because I was very young, could I have merged my identity with another person's, and singularities like this are where you find eternity.

Jonathan Franzen

#34. You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

Hilary Mantel

#35. Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

Libba Bray

#36. Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Drew Houston

#37. You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

#38. We can only be young once. But we can always be immature.

Dave Barry

#39. One is only young once, but in her case it was once to often.

Louis De Bernieres

#40. Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

Terri Windling

#41. I lean forward, pressing my lips to his, and it breaks me open. His hand leaves my face and traces notes up my arms, strikes chords on my throat and up into my hair. His mouth forms lyrics that expose my soul.

The kiss is like a song played only once. And forever.

Katherine Longshore

#42. But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#43. I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

Ashton Kutcher