Quotes About Adulthood

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

You don't necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices. The important thing, I think, is to choose for yourself. Standing

Però, chi nella vita non conosce almeno una volta la disperazione e non capisce quali cose valgano veramente, diventa adulto senza avere mai capito che cosa sia veramente la gioia.

To the extend that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

I told you, animals have a thing for me. It's the grown-ups I can't seem to win over.

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

And when adulthood fails you, you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond of your childhood, the rye bread with peanut butter and bananas your grandmother gave you while the rest of the family slept. There is the voice you can still summon at will, like your mother's, it will always whisper, you can't have it all, but there is this.

Our children when young are a part of ourselves, but when they grow up, they are just other people. —A PAPER LANDSCAPE

A lot of it is maturity and getting older. You know, sort of getting married and realizing you're not out there for yourself anymore.

There was definitely a time where I kind of did rebel a little bit, but it was not until I had graduated college.

I was never a rebel or anything like that early on.

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I told my mum recently, when I used to envisage my adulthood, it was just me working at a corner shop that mum and dad could drive me to and pick me up from. I couldn't ever imagine living on my own and having a job that I wanted to do. Because I never saw it.

Children already ignore others and take time on their own, and I think that is something adults should refer back to as they deal with the everyday hustle of the world.

But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes.

I had to grow up, but I think I've grown up a lot. I think I'm handling myself well.

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.