Top 38 Quotes About Wasted Youth: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Wasted Youth

#1. I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me

Juliana Hatfield

#2. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

Meat Loaf

#3. Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

Linda Ellerbee

#4. I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

John Cheever

#5. Youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

William Shakespeare

#6. I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

Arthur Ransome

#7. Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one of the bleakest places on earth
an icy, windswept rat maze where kids wasted their youth clawing over one another in a fatuous contest for credentials.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. Youth is just wasted on young people.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Youth is wasted on you if you can't manage a little trip!

Rasana Atreya

#10. The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name 'Cause we made history Na na na na, na na

E. Lockhart

#11. It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

Olivia Hussey

#12. Age is wasted on the young. Just like youth.

Lev Grossman

#13. Thank God I've wasted my youth already. I don't want to do that again.

Greg Deane

#14. A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.

Lyman Abbott

#15. The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

#16. Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young

Mary Schmich

#17. Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

Sloane Crosley

#18. I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

Jeff Lindsay

#19. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#20. The tender spring upon thy tempting lip
Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:
Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.

William Shakespeare

#21. I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

Wolf Kahn

#22. The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

William Ellery Channing

#23. It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.

Elizabeth Bowen

#25. What T. S. Eliot said: When all is said and done the writer may realize that he has wasted his youth and wrecked his health for nothing.

Jenny Offill

#26. I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

Eric Bana

#27. Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Anthony Marra

#28. You're at a tough age. You want to be treated like an adult, but you still want kid benefits." "I don't feel like a kid." "You're turning fourteen in a couple of months. Ever heard the expression: youth is wasted on the young?

Andrew Peterson

#29. Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Mark Twain

#30. Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

#31. If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#32. My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith.

Paul Goodman