Adolescence Quotes

Adolescence is like cactus.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

High school was great when it ended.

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.