Quotes About Adulthood

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?

A.J. has never changed a diaper in his life, though he is a modestly skilled gift wrapper.

They'd never been friendly in Cambridge, but in L.A., they had become instant best friends in the way people can in their twenties.

I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.

Sadie and Marx took a cab back to the hotel. "Do you mind what your father said?" she asked him. "No," Marx said. "I loved being a student actor. I was fully devoted to it, and now I'm not. I think if I'd become a professional, I would likely have fallen out of love with it anyway. It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?

Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.

And somewhere between the late thirties and early forties when we enter midlife, we also have the opportunity for true adulthood, whereupon we proceed either to wither inside our husks or to regather and re-pot ourselves for the flowering into our full authenticity.

Trying to stabilize—that is what the twenties are all about. The

No matter how different the forms we choose, our concentration during the Trying Twenties is on mastering what we feel we are supposed to do.

THE TRYING TWENTIES CONFRONTS US WITH THE QUESTION of how to take hold in the adult world. Incandescent with our molten energies, having outgrown the family and the formlessness of our transiting years, we are impatient to pour ourselves into the exactly right form—our own way of living in the world.

Men are only so much use. Men are boys.

I realized, then, that being an adult was just about bullshitting everyone around you. Just do things until someone stops you from doing those things, and then say, "Oh, that isn't allowed?

The living of your life is hard work, young Master Carter... You may act the gentleman or the barbarian." "Those are the only two choices?" "Yes," said the Butler, "the only two...

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

What makes you an adult? he said & I said it's mainly a height requirement & the willingness to keep quiet when people say stupid things. —Adult Club

Don't treat me like a little girl

At the time, I thought this was just one of those vague things adults say to remind you that you're a kid who doesn't know what adults know. But it seemed now it was one of those specific things adults say to remind you that you're a kid who doesn't know what adults know.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Only in adulthood can any intelligent understanding of the meaning of one's existence in this world be gained from one's experiences in it.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up. Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

A child isn't born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let's just say that when I realized that I didn't want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can't go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.