327 Quotes About Adults

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

Part of being an adult is treating women like women.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.