Quotes About Adulthood

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools—friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty—and said, Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they're enough.

You can't run alongside your grown children with sunscreen and ChapStick on their hero's journey." -- Anne Lamott, "Twelve Truths I Learned from Writing to Life

You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her.

He had been forty-three years old—too young to think of making funeral plans. So all of that was left to Willa

He must have been thinking about this ahead of time. He must have consciously decided he wanted her, and imagined how it would be. The knowledge made her feel mysterious and desirable and grown-up.

One day, when you are grown up, you suddenly become aware that something has gone

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage? Those

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice?

I'm not a child. Don't talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you're worse. You're an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)

Damn adulthood. He wanted to send it back for a full refund.

Younger people are younger a little longer these days, so we know a lot of 32-year-olds who are still quite young, haven't quite gotten their life paths completely decided yet.

Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

life is just high school all over again, only with bigger bills to pay.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.