Quotes About Adulthood

This, according to the fellows who saw me as fit for a Service career, put me ahead of the curve, to understand this truth at an age when most guys are starting only to suspect the basics of adulthood--that life owes you nothing; that suffering takes many forms; that no one will ever care for you as your mother did; that the human heart is a chump.

I Philo, educating yourself was something you had to do in spite if school, not because of it -- which is basically why so many of my high school peers are still there in Philo even now, selling one another insurance, drinking supermarket liquor, watching television, awaiting the formality of their first cardiac.

The placid hopelessness of adulthood. The complex regret.

These kids should be out drinking beer and seeing films and having panty raids and losing virginities and writhing to suggestive music, not making up long, sad, convoluted stories.

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be grown up, but it seems as if that's when a fellow starts, because that's when a fellow starts finding out about things.

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be a grown up, but it seems as if that's when a fellow starts, because that's when a fellow starts finding out things.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness

But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not.

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

Could I go back and live at Mum and Dad's at the age of twenty-six?

No soporté más y estoy confensando que ya sabía una verdad que nunca tuvo utilidad y aplicación, y que tendría miedo de aplicar, pues no soy lo bastante adulta para saber usar una verdad sin destruirme.

Ik had de moet niet om geen belofte meer te zijn en bleef mezelf beloven, als een volwassene die de moed niet heeft om in te zien dat hij volwassen is en doorgaat zichzelf rijpheid te beloven.

Ik had de moed niet om geen belofte meer te zijn en bleef mezelf beloven, als een volwassene die de moed niet heeft om in te zien dat hij volwassen is en doorgaat zichzelf rijpheid te beloven.

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

So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up.

Quando si diventa adulti, uno finisce per rendersi conto che ha un tetto sulla testa, ovvero un limite. Man mano che passano gli anni, la testa s'avvicina al tetto, e uno vede chiaramente anche le macchie e la sporcizia. Forse non riuscite ancora a comprendere questi nostri sentimenti. Perciò al momento le vostre potenzialità sono illimitate. Perché sopra di voi s'estende il cielo infinito […]

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.

I hate that you can do what you're supposed to do and I can't. I hate that you're going to leave me behind. I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like dying . It feels like each one of you is being possessed and I'm next.

She was teetering on the cusp of adulthood. Three-quarters child, one-quarter yearning. Her dreams were confused kaleidoscopes of swanning through the sets of TV shows, drinking cocktails that looked like vodka martinis and tasted like Sprite, wearing lipstick and pumps covered in red craft glitter, and marrying someone who was half pop star and half stuffed animal.

You can't play pretend forever.

An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.