Adolescence Quote by Theodore Roethke

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

— Mary Pipher

Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and…

— Sara Shandler

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 a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

— Faye Moskowitz

Adolescence, the time to live, experience, love before the monotonia of adulthood, so let's live the day without hate or sorrow

— Anonymous

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate…

— Virginia Satir

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

“In idyllic small towns I sometimes see teenagers looking out of place in their garb of desperation, the leftover tatters and stains and slashes…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Michel Houellebecq