Adulthood Quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“The problem with parents is that they're adults.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Honestly. Adults. How do they live in the world? (Or maybe that is how they live in the world.)”

— Patrick Ness

“Children understand...things far better. Adults always make things so complicated.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“It turns out that the things I hated most as a child are the same things that serve me the most as an adult.”

— Kevin Hart

“Deep inside, we’re all just playing at being adults. Because we’ll never be better than the people we were at six, or worse than…

— Emily Hemmer

“Adults are good at pretending to have things figured out, but we rarely do.”

— Toby Neighbors

“Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.”

— Andrew Sturm

“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Adults: they were so unpredictable that nothing they did should have been able to surprise me anymore.”

— Helen Grant

“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.”

— Karen White

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

“Society ends up with the adults it deserves. It's just a little more obvious nowadays.”

— Ake Edwardson