Adolescence Quotes

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

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

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

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

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

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

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

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

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

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.