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Adulthood Quotes

Stephen King quote: "Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in..."
Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps. Stephen King
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. Thomas Szasz
Someone once said that his favourite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant something new was being born. Does this make any sense if we apply it to our individual lives? To die when something new is being born - even if that something new is our very own self? Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappointments, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by... Julian Barnes
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being. Nathaniel Branden
I think that something similar happens with our psychic muscles. They cramp around our wounds? the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood, the humiliations suffered in both? to keep us from getting hurt in the same place again, to keep foreign substances out. So those wounds never have a chance to heal. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don't even know that the wounds and the cramping are there, but both limit us. They keep us... Anne Lamott
Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed. Neal Stephenson
Michael Chabon quote: "this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in..."
this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing Michael Chabon
P. D. James quote: "If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in..."
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. P. D. James
I never did anything according to what anyone else wanted. That's why I think I am happy. I do everything 100%--even my stupidest missteps. I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on. That's the way I was as a kid. Even into adulthood, I look back at some things and go, 'I can't believe I did that.' But I can also go back and say, 'I did that, I know I'm responsible for that, and I can make amends,' and we can all laugh at it, because it's my mistake. I try not to... Sandra Bullock
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the..."
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. Jeffrey Eugenides
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns..."
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. Robert A. Heinlein
Bill Watterson quote: "I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood..."
I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed. Bill Watterson
Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood before they were worthy of information and discussion. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight. Scott Turow
Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up. Jerry Seinfeld

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