Adolescence Quote by Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads…

— Louise J. Kaplan

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

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan

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

The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to…

— Louise J. Kaplan

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

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 not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the…

— Michel Houellebecq

“...the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“Adolescence is not a period of being “crazy” or “immature.” It is an essential time of emotional intensity, social engagement, and creativity.”

— Daniel J. Siegel

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

— Mary Pipher