Quotes About Adolescence

advantages, they experience among the highest rates of depression, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, somatic complaints, and unhappiness of any group of children in this country.2

It is now clear, however, that children of privilege are exhibiting unexpectedly high rates of emotional problems beginning in junior high school and accelerating throughout adolescence.

Aveam dou?zeci È™i cinci de ani, vârsta ta, Nicholas, asta-È›i poate spune mai mult decât orice cât eram de incapabil s?-l judec. Cred c? este vârsta cea mai dificil? È™i enervant?. Înseamn? a fi È™i a observa totodat?. EÈ™ti inteligent È™i considerat om în toat? firea. Unii te reduc la starea de adolescen??, pentru c? numai experienÈ›a poate s? înÈ›eleag? È™i s? asimileze.

It wasn't a romance; they were too young for that. Theo did not know of a single thirteen-year-old boy in his class who admitted to having a girlfriend.

Mary's uncle presented the fifteen-year-old king with the scepter, the rod of justice and a ring

At that age, it feels as good to feel bad as it does to feel good.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

Nostalgia! Miss Frost cried. You´re nostalgic! She repeated. Just how old are you, William? She asked. Seventeen, I told her. Seventeen! Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. Well, William Abbott, if you're nostalgic at seventeen, maybe you are going to be a writer!

It is simply amazing, at that age, when you're thirteen or fourteen, how you can take being loved for granted, how (even when you are wanted) you can feel utterly alone.

For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.

As a fourteen-year-old, he'd not been old enough to have sympathy for her—for either the child or the adult that she was.

We all go through a phase—it lasts a lifetime, for some of us—when we're embarrassed by our parents; we don't want them hanging around us because we're afraid they'll do or say something that will make us feel ashamed of them.

What we believe as children forms us; what haunts us in our childhood and adolescence can make us do wayward things

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

If an orphan is not adopted by the time he reaches this alarming period of adolescence, he may continue to deceive himself, and others forever. "For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.

Perhaps she had seen what Jack would look like as an older boy, or a grown man, and what she saw in him riveted her with longing and desperation. (Or with fear and degradation, Jack Burns would one day conclude, because this same older girl suddenly looked away.)

Durante un período terrible de la vida, el adolescente se defrauda a sí mismo y cree que puede engañar al mundo entero. Está convencido de que es invulnerable.

È un buon segno piangere per un romanzo» mi assicurò Miss Frost. «Un buon segno?» «Significa che hai più cuore della maggior parte dei tuoi coetanei.»

At eleven or twelve, girls think they look awful. They have ceased being children, at least in their estimation, but they have not yet developed into the young women they will become. At that age, there are great differences among them: some have begun to look and move like young women, others have boys' bodies and move as if they were shy young men.

It was partly his doing. The Devon faculty had never before experienced a student who combined a calm ignorance of the rules with a winning urge to be good, who seemed to love the school truly and deeply, and never more than when he was breaking the regulations, a model boy who was most comfortable in the truant's corner. The faculty threw up its hands over Phineas, and so loosened its grip on all of us.

No one cared, no one exercised any real discipline over us; we were on our own.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.