Top 115 Adolescence Quotes

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

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

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don’t think I’m alone – genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

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

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.

In the early ’90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called ‘Xombi,’ published by Milestone Media.

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

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.

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening – the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us – seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

I’m very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What’s most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I’d had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: ‘Well, perhaps I can show off now.’

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

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 started hustling in early adolescence.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with people – I didn’t know any other lens in which to do it.

The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we just need to work on the idea that, even out of adolescence, that it’s okay to still play.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it’s practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Kids are smart nowadays, they are much more aware of their surroundings than we were 20 years ago, but at the same time it is important that they are guided as a friend when they go through adolescence.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as transmission from crowded living conditions and social behaviors common among college students.

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, ‘No, I had a perfect adolescence,’ make me wonder how that is possible.

I look back at my adolescence, and I’m shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

Being a father can ‘unreason’ your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It’s sad that children’s open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn’t reduce your chances of fracture later in life.

I was always the young guy. And when you’re successful when you’re young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y’know.

We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.

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

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

‘The Catcher in the Rye.’ When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.

I’ve had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.

Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.

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

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

‘Star Wars’ boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

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.

Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

I wouldn’t say I’m stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

The idols of one’s adolescence tend to endure – you never forget how you worshipped them.

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

Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

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

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.

The early adolescence years are crucial for a child’s cognitive, emotional and social development.

If ‘Queen Of Denmark’ was about my childhood, then ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.