424 Quotes About Adulthood

I also realized that becoming the adult my parents wanted me to be was on an entirely different path from becoming the adult I wanted to be — and it had always been that way.

It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us.

It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. You could make them yourself. I was thrilled to know this. I was twenty-one years old and I was going to move to New York, get a job at a magazine, and become a writer.

Before long your fears become adult ones: crushing debts and responsibilities, sick parents and sick kids, the possibility of dying unremembered or unloved. Fears of not being the person you were so certain you'd grow up to be.

What was it about becoming an adult? The color drained from the days and life became a calendar. I floated in a debris of plausible dates and implausible plans.

It was the great evil of plays that every character had some kind of purpose. Absorb too much of them, and you could go about believing there was something wrong with you if you drifted unremarked towards your thirties, and coasted into a quiet beach of no interest to anyone.

Fuck you. I’m an adult.” And as an adult, he could pout if he fucking wanted to.

Stop waiting for people approval of your own life , an live it

The triumph of adulthood is learning how to love others and becoming sociably responsible.The tragedy of adulthood is the loss of the sense of wonder for the majesty of creation.