I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

“Adolescent youths cry out for us to help them contextualize their life experiences.”

— Michael Gurian

Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell…

— Aloe Blacc

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs…

— Anonymous

“Capture your youth, while you can.”

— Anthony Liccione

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

— Heather O'Neill

“I've had a great deal of experience with adolescents over the centuries, and I've discovered that as a group these awkward half children take…

— Anonymous

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman…

— Caroline Lawrence

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

— Tim Curry

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from…

— Edie Sedgwick

A lot of people pass off adolescent depression as something trivial.

— Lacey Sturm

“I will never be crazy," repeats the adolescent hero to herself. "I will never get killed. I have to grow up.”

— Anonymous

“It’s too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won’t happen after all—or…

— Octavia E. Butler

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini