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.

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

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

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

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

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

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

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.

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

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

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

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

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

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

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

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

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

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.