“In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.”
Janet Erskine Stuart
“Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.”
Tori Amos
“There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.”
Edward Hoagland
“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition”
Theodore Roethke
“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone”
John Ciardi
“As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.”
Charles de Gaulle
“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.”
Uma Thurman
