424 Quotes About Adulthood

You're a grown-up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards—the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees—have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with.

The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

A life of dangerous adventures might seem worth it now, when you are young and seemingly invincible, but one day, you will have children, and you will not want that life for them.

It's like the corporate world's full of ghosts … maybe a fairer way of putting this would be to say that adulthood's full of ghosts … these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed ... They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped … High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

It’s adult swim time and I’m diving in here at the shallow end.

It's so much easier to blame the grownups than to be one.

Of course I can cook. I'm an adult. Feeding myself is part of the deal.

I took the elevator to the fourth floor, walked down the cheap green paint hallways and found the dark-red peeling wooden door of 4G. I put the key in the lock, opened the door and felt the thrill of impending adulthood and freedom.For all of thirty seconds.