Adolescence Quotes - Page 8

• Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that' or 'you shouldn't say that' or 'that wasn't appropriate' so most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK.......Most human beings have an imprinting that if they're real, if they're honest, somebody's not gonna like it. And they won't be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.

  Adyashanti

  Real, People, Childhood

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• The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Bud, Ears

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• When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.

  Milan Kundera

  Kissing, Avid, Events

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• And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Wall, Boys, Doors

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• I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

  Christina Ricci

  Awkward, Braces

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• Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

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• In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Believe, Order

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.137, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

  Heather O'Neill

  Stars, Children, Fall

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• My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

  James Joyce

  Country, Writing, Men

  "A brief survey of the short story part 32: James Joyce" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.

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• We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

  Garrison Keillor

  Husband, Father, Caring

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• Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

  Patton Oswalt

  Stories, World, Bills

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

  Mira Nair

  Believe, House, Western

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• A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

  Ian Mcewan

  Years, Childhood, Twenties

  Ian McEwan, Ryan Roberts (2010). “Conversations with Ian McEwan”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  School, Males, Crap

  "Benedict Cumberbatch on playing Sherlock Holmes". Interview with Amanda Mitchison, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  Quentin Crisp

  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and thedamp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Art, Teenager, Opportunity

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• I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Ideas, Age

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• Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Voice, Kicking, Foals

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• I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

  Joss Whedon

  Emotional, Icons, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

  Joss Whedon

  Teenager, School, Men

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Book, Home, Boys

  H.P. Lovecraft (2011). “The Road to Madness”, p.84, Del Rey

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• Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Light, Steps, Youth

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.135, Bantam

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• Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

  Joan Didion

  Girl, Pain, Age

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.42, Zola Books

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• You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

  Queen Latifah

  Believe, Sometimes, Stand Alone

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• All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Growing Up, Smart

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