424 Quotes About Adulthood

He considered himself, and the way he moved in reaction, like a pinball, from one thing to the next, as he was told, as was expected, as made the least friction, and he knew this was the lazy behavior of a scared boy.

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.

They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except they never learned to be grown-ups. And they never learned to be just kids, either. Stuck in never-never land. Kinda sad.

You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.

How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?

Признать свое поражение до схватки – талант, не свойственный юности. <...> Сдаться, не боясь потерять лицо… Это ли юность?

The most childish thing is to believe that you are an adult now...

Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.

Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, uns zu vergnügen, wie nur wenige Erwachsene das können. Der Tag, an dem wir beginnen, uns Gedanken über die Zukunft zu machen, ist der Tag, an dem wir unsere Kindheit hinter uns lassen.