Quotes: Adolescence

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.