(89 quotes found)
“I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.”
Tre Cool
“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone”
John Ciardi
“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence”
Art Linkletter
“Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.”
Cesare Pavese
“An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.”
Andrew Greeley
“Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.”
Tori Amos
“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”
Carol Burnett
“Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.”
Earl Wilson
“Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition”
Theodore Roethke
