Adulthood Quote by Jean Hannah Edelstein

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

— Charles Finch

“Wasn’t that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good, and wanted…

— Orson Scott Card

“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“You get older, but you don't ever feel grown up”

— Megan McCafferty

“I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep…

— Eleanor Brown

“I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love it! They…

— Beatrice Sparks

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“When life had its way with a person, one had to either give up or grow up.”

— Rachael Anderson

“The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would…

— Scott Turow

“Was this adulthood? To wake up every day and know it would bring both good and bad? To do things you had to do,…

— C.C. Hunter