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Top 36 Adolescence Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 20, 2020

“I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.”

― Aimee Bender

“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.”

― Art Linkletter

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

― Benedict Cumberbatch

“Female adolescence is – universally – an emotionally and psychologically intense period.”

― Caitlin Flanagan

“I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.”

― Christina Ricci

“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”

― Coco Chanel

“I started on ‘Neighbours’ when I was 14. It’s crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.”

― Eliza Taylor

“I started hustling in early adolescence.”

― Freddie Gibbs

“In the early ’90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called ‘Xombi,’ published by Milestone Media.”

― Gene Luen Yang

“Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.”

― Harlan Coben

“Adolescence is a plague on the senses.”

― Henry Rollins

“I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.”

― Hunx

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

― Jena Malone

“Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”

― Jodie Foster

“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”

― Jose Ortega y Gasset

“My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.”

― Kerri Strug

“As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I’m starting to get seasick.”

― Kristin Armstrong

“During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that’s all I had. I wrote because that’s all I had.”

― Laird Barron

“’The Catcher in the Rye.’ When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.”

― Libba Bray

“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.”

― Louise J. Kaplan

“What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.”

― Martha Beck

“In our house we say ‘adolescence’ is a western word. We don’t believe in it.”

― Mira Nair

“I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.”

― Pamela Druckerman

“My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.”

― Peter Shaffer

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

― Rex Stout

“’Star Wars’ boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.”

― Rian Johnson

“I’ve had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.”

― Shawn Colvin

“By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.”

― Sheri L. Dew

“My whole adolescence has been on ‘Game of Thrones;’ I don’t know what I’m going to do without it.”

― Sophie Turner

“I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.”

― Stanislav Grof

“I don’t write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.”

― Suzanne Collins

“Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.”

― Tayari Jones

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

― Terri Apter

“I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn’t become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but that was very much part of my adolescence as well.”

― Tobias Forge

“I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.”

― Tom Lehrer

“Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town – there’s all these different energies going on.”

― William Kircher

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