Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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

• Youth
• Immortal
• Wasted

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• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Black
  • Youth

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Youth
  • Serenity
  • Smiling

• Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Father
  • Film
  • Youth

• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age
  • Reading
  • Youth

• Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Job
  • Black

• I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Television
  • Youth

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  

  Hannah More
  • Poverty
  • Youth
  • Luxury

• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Study

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Age
  • Study
  • Childhood

• I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Wish
  • Youth
  • Clothing

• Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Model
  • Youth
  • Role Model

• Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Age
  • Party

• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guilty

• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Youth
  • Madness

• Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Question
  • Old
  • Youth

• It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Inspiration
  • Shelf
  • Timelines

• Love is reducing the universe to one being.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Universe
  • Love Is
  • Reducing

• I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Red
  • Orange
  • Red Carpet

• Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

  

  Sophocles
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Wit

• 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
  • Youth
  • Immortal
  • Wasted