Adulthood Quote by Anonymous

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

— Theodore Roethke

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

— Tori Amos

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and grow younger…

— Channing Pollock

Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you…

— Anonymous

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast…

— Helene Deutsch

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains…

— Ned Vizzini

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to…

— Louise J. Kaplan

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

— G. Stanley Hall

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without…

— Sara Paretsky

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

— Nicholas Sparks