I did not have the moments of so-called normal people…

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an…

— Heather O'Neill

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Adolescence is like cactus.

— Anais Nin

I've had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.

— Shawn Colvin

Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a…

— Louise J. Kaplan

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I…

— Winona Ryder

I was in therapy for six years and then stopped. You get hardwired at adolescence, like a caterpillar that pupates and re-assembles itself as…

— Grayson Perry

“Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again. (From…

— Giddens Ko

I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was…

— Winona Ryder

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

— G. Stanley Hall

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

— Amity Shlaes

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

— Molly Ivins

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

— Bob Phillips

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

— Ben Shapiro

They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence…

— Ari Shavit