Adolescence Quotes

“Fear didn't suit me.”

— Gwenda Bond

Why would you want to grow up

— Anonymous

Adulthood is hell.

— H. P. Lovecraft

To be adult is to be alone.

— Jean Rostand

To be an adult is to be alone.

— Jean Rostand

Adolescence is like cactus.

— Anais Nin

Who says we have to grow up?

— Walt Disney

“One day you'll be cool. [Anita to her 11-yo brother William]”

— Cameron Crowe

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

— Henry Rollins

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

— Christina Ricci

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

— Margaret Cho

High school was great when it ended.

— Jennifer Stone

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

— Virginia Satir

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

— Tom Lehrer

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

— Mardy Grothe

I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is…

— Peter Paige

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the…

— Jeanne Elium

“You know you’re a real grown-up when nothing but Oreos is black and white.”

— Maria Murnane

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

— Bob Phillips

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as…

— Henning Mankell

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

— Pamela Druckerman

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.

— Kylian Mbappe

I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

— Jim Carroll

Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The…

— Mary Pipher

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go.…

— Ron Taffel

When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from…

— Dave Barry

I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I…

— John Adams

“We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who…

— Margaret Mead

The most dangerous age is 14. If you know any teenagers, this might not come as a surprise, but research has confirmed…

— Susannah Cahalan

I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just…

— Evangeline Lilly

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more…

— Camille Paglia

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as…

— Tom Robbins

I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They…

— Francine Pascal

I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why…

— Madonna Ciccone

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. Weget through the Car Crash Agealive and cruise through our early twenties…

— Garrison Keillor

Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are…

— Alden Nowlan

The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break…

— Louise J. Kaplan

The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“If by adolescence limbic, autonomic, and endocrine systems are going full blast while the frontal cortex is still working out the assembly…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan