This collection holds 232 adolescence quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Anais Nin, Jennifer Stone and Henry Rollins.

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Adolescence is like cactus.

High school was great when it ended.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

I started hustling in early adolescence.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

I've had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.

Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back.

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

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