Quotes About Adolescence

At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked this too shall pass - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time.

Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.

In school, the other girls formed alliances which always excluded me. They called me names; I will not repeat them here. They made fun of my unshapely body, my pale skin, my untamed hair. I do not know why I was born this way.

De qualquer jeito, eu tinha completado treze anos e achava que já era tempo de seguir meu próprio tempo. (Nove)

Success is different at different stages of development—from not wetting your pants in infancy, to being well liked in childhood and adolescence, to getting laid in young adulthood, to making money and having prestige in later adulthood, to getting laid in middle age, to being well liked in old age, to not wetting your pants in senility." What's

High school is the time of puberty. And puberty is a time of intense exposure and vulnerability. Whatever toxic shame a person carries from childhood will be tested in high school. Often teenage groups look for a scapegoat, someone everyone can dump and project their shame onto. This was Arnold's fate. He was viciously shamed by his female peer group. This accounted for his problem with women.

Not knowing who you are is the greatest tragedy of all. The rigid family-system roles sealed during adolescence become the most conscious identity you have. In fact, these roles become addictions. By being in the role, you feel that you matter. To let go of the role would be to touch the deep reservoir of toxic shame that binds your original pain, the core of which is the spiritual wound. When you lost your I AMness, you lost your mattering.

And walking back from the river I remember the galling loneliness of my adolescence, from which I do not seem to have completely escaped. It is the sense of the voyeur, the lonely, lonely boy with no role in life but to peer in at the lighted windows of other people's contentment and vitality. It seems comical -- farcical -- that, having been treated so generously, I should be struck with this image of a kid in the rain walking along the road shoulders of East Milton.

I'm a teenager. I text at the speed of light, listen to my music too loud, roll my eyes, fall in love easily & get my heart broken.

Just thinking about you with her makes me so sick to my stomach. I just don't get it anymore. Boys suck!

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

I wish I could go to school without studying, and just have fun with my friends.

Some friends are just school friends and it would be weird to hang out with them anywhere else besides school.

Being a girl is hard work. Too bad it's so fun.

Say what you want about these girls, but it must be rough being a teen mom.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

Those awkward days when your best friend isn't at school and you feel like total loner.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

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