191 Quotes About Twenties

The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there’s arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.

After age twenty-five, you're not a victim anymore — you're a volunteer.

I know from your letters and from seeing you after your play that you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay that’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty-four. In fact our whole generation is like that. I read an article about it, it's because we never fought in a war or watched too much television or something.

The middle of life has these cul-de-sac days. In your twenties you think, Surely I am going somewhere, and later--as in now--you think, Nope.

She can take Dad to that new-wave nightclub downtown, where all those strange couples in their twenties hang out.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.