Adolescence Quotes

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

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

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

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

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

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.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

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

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

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

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

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

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

High school was great when it ended.

Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

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

It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.

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

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

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.