All-joy-and-no-fun Quote by Phillips

“Alas, that’s what adulthood is supposed to be about: “an overcoming” or (better yet) “a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity.”

— Jennifer Senior

“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater…

— Thomas Szasz

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up:that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits…

— Piers Anthony

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger…

— Anonymous

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

— John Fowles

“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

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to…

— Adam Savage

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

— Christian Smith

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

— Robert A. Heinlein