Quotes About Adulthood

When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a frustrated musician for a little bit.

Being imaginative and playful doesn't make you any less of an adult," Gabriel said gently. "It only makes you a more interesting one.

I circled the next puddle and said, "I'm going to let you in on a secret: People don't grow up like you think they do." Rae sighed and said, "What are you talking about?" "The whole grown-up thing is a myth. Whatever is wrong with you now will probably be wrong with you in twenty years.

The problem is, I'm not sure I'm ready for anything. Everything you're supposed to do when you grow up. Move away from home, buy your own food and groceries, get married, have children. Sometimes even the easy part of all that seems impossible to me. And then I wonder what will happen ten, twenty years from now. Will I be a fifty-year-old adolescent, completely alone, still sponging off whatever family I've got left?

I'd been eleven when my father disappeared and eighteen when my mother was murdered. Now, I'm twenty-eight

Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.

But growing up is never that easy, no matter what age you are.

I wished it were that simple... just read a map and suddenly we would know where we were meant to end up and how to get there. But growing up is never that easy, no matter what age you are.

Marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Lily's fight with Phoebe felt like a confrontation with her own inner twelve-year-old self, and perhaps that's why she gets so irrationally angry with her daughter. Like Paisley, Lily has her own inner bad girl. Like Paisley's, Lily's inner devil is probably also a tween betwixt girlhood and adulthood,

An adult should not be forced into marriage as a child is forced to eat his peas. Peas are only part of a meal. Marriage is a life's work.

If you stay in therapy," I say softly, "you might have to let go of the hope for a better childhood—but that's only so that you can create a better adulthood.

Everyone wages this internal battle to some degree: Child or adult? Safety or freedom? But no matter where people fall on those continuums, every decision they make is based on two things: fear and love. Therapy strives to teach you how to tell the two apart.

No, adulting is like"—she searched for the right words—"looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane.

sometimes adulthood felt like the vet's office and she was the dog excited for the car ride—only to find out the destination.

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.

Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become than by what you are.

Grownups are always more fascinated by what you might become than what you are.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.