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Jean Cocteau Quotes about Youth

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The joy of the young is to disobey

The joy of the young is to disobey

Jean Cocteau
Joy, Youth, Young

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Jean Cocteau
Youth, Accepting, Certain

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Jean Cocteau
Venture, Youth, Conviction
Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.40, Melville House

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Jean Cocteau
Order, Joy, Youth
"Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists". Book by James Geary (p. 271), 2007.

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