424 Quotes About Adulthood

Menjadi dewasa adalah konsep yang terlalu dibesar-besarkan. Hidup adalah tentang memilih. Setiap hari kita dihadapkan pada begitu banyak pilihan. Pilihlah dengan baik.

You boys are really turning into a bunch of Peter Pans," he said. "Willem, what are you? Thirty-six? I'm not sure what's going on with you lot. You’re making money. You've achieved something. Don't you think you guys should stop clinging to one another and get serious about adulthood?" But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option?

Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

I bet even this little boy will grow up to be an adult before he realizes. He'll just become an adult like that. Whether he accepts it or resists until the end is a big fork in the path of life, I suppose.

Don't you think you guys should stop clinging to one another and get serious about adulthood?" But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option?

Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other state we know.

We can’t stop smiling at each other. I can’t believe that adults get to do this every day. And I don’t even mean sex, though it’s wonderful, but things like this. Brushing our teeth at the same sink. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don’t want to ever forget.

A felnőttség a csalódás eredménye. Ahogy múlik az élet, az embernek le kell mondania ifjúsága reményeiről, álmairól, vágyairól, s egyre inkább úgy érzi, hogy áldozatul esett a világnak és a többieknek.

I used to get so worked up about this or that boy, or who was passing notes in math class. All that stuff seems so far away now, ever since Real Life came along and punched me in the face.