Adolescence Quotes

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

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

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

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

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.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.