Adolescence Quotes · Page 8

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

— David Gerrold

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable…

— Julian Barnes

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

— Adrienne Rich

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than…

— Andre Gide

“The problem with growing up,” Quentin said, “is that once you’re grown up, people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.”

— Anonymous

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

— Terence McKenna

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

— Mary Pipher

“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

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

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of…

— Maria Montessori

Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so…

— Phyllis McGinley

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when…

— Leo Tolstoy

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability…

— Virginia Satir

Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun.…

— Halsey

I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence…

— Paul Tournier

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!…

— Whitley Strieber

“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults…

— Jean M. Twenge

“The adolescent is the one who wants to experience everything. The adult comes to realize you can't experience everything.”

— Eric Jensen

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how…

— Shailene Woodley

My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it.

— Sophie Turner

“No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in…

— Carl Henegan

“So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

In my adolescence, everyone would like to play in Italy: Roma, Milan, Lazio, Juventus, Sampdoria, Napoli.

— Cafu

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a…

— Nancy Gibbs

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

— Mira Nair

If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

— Jenny Lawson

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall

Being an adult means knowing you can have cake for every meal, but choosing not to have cake for every meal because…

— Anonymous

Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.

— Edmund White

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

— John Irving

Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some…

— Maya Hawke

“Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!”

— Cornelia Spelman