Emerging Adulthood Quotes

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

Fashion is a growing love that probably started when I got into my 20s.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

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

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

I think I went through puberty. I'm, like, 20 now and I was, like, 17 then, ... You know, I've experienced different things and am having a lot more fun with it.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.