lost youth
Childhood slipped away
Lost youth is the time of life that has passed and cannot be recovered—specifically the vitality, innocence, or opportunities associated with being young.
The phrase carries nostalgia and often regret: He spent his days mourning his lost youth.
It can refer to wasted potential during one's younger years or simply to the inevitable passage of time.
The song was about lost youth and roads not taken.
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- days gone byPrevious periods of time
- good old daysIdealized past era
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
- regretSorrow over past actions
time flies · memories · faded · wistful · fleeting · golden · bittersweet · carefree · summers · photographs · yearning · playground · school days · first love · reckless · freedom · aging · wasted
- midlifemidlife crisis, empty nest, empty nester, forties, fifties
- nostalgianostalgia, nostalgic, memories, memory, remember
- elegydirge, eulogy, lament, lamentation, requiem
lost youtheternal youth
Permanent freedom from aging
youthfulness · prime of life · young adulthood · salad days · boyhood
lost youthvigor
Active physical strength
vitality · vivacity · exuberance · vibrancy · liveliness
lost youthrejuvenation
Restoration of youthful vigor
rebirth · renaissance · new beginning · fresh start · second wind
lost, lose, loses, losing, loser, losers, loss, losses, youth