Top Adolescence Quotes
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Terri Apter
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose Saramago
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer
Harold Brodkey 
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Coco Chanel 
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Nora Ephron 
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi 
69% of people like this quote
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Terri Apter
61% of people like this quote
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose Saramago
60% of people like this quote
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer
59% of people like this quote
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
Maya Lin
58% of people like this quote
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
Robert Cormier
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Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
David Elkind
57% of people like this quote
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
56% of people like this quote
Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
George Alec Effinger
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