Adult Life Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Adult Life

Adult Life Quotes & Sayings

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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. — Richard Peck

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist. — Jim Gaffigan

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life. — Randi Weingarten

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic. — Joan Didion

Yeah, but most of the time I think being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. I've always wanted to postpone growing up for as long as possible. — Adrianne Noel

It was the calm before the storm, and holy crap, my bones knew it was going to be the storm of my life. — Tijan

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity. — C.J. Duggan

If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter. — David Housholder

My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin. — C.S. Lewis

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult. — Chelsea Handler

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life. — LeAnn Rimes

Great. My life has suddenly become a young-adult novel. — R.J. Gonzales

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul. — Mark Edwards

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim. — Elie Wiesel

I'd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass. — Richelle Mead

I will live this life the only way I know how. With love at its core. With love in my heart. — E. Katherine Kottaras

Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside. — Eeva Lancaster

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — Maria Montessori

When life hands you lemons sometimes you just have to say screw the lemons, and bail. — Magan Vernon

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families. — Bernie Sanders

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood. — Billy Graham

If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster. — Stephanie Lawton

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16. — Mark Leyner

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her. — Rosemary Mahoney

This, Derek, is what you're going to turn into without her in your life. You can only get worse from here. This is why you need her. — Bella Forrest

But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After — Steve Watkins

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life. — Sheena Easton

All my adult life people have been helping me. — Stephen Hawking

Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's". — Vann Chow

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available. — Brian Joyce

An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The greatest things in life always come with a chance of great loss — Luke Edison

Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life. — Kathy Mckeon

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it. — Peter Jennings

You know who you are you just have to believe it. — Elizabeth Scott

At some point in any adult life, we have to understand that business decisions cannot be made with an emotional bias. — Carlos Wallace

It's always been you, Paige. I've waited my whole life for you. You're the air I breathe, my heart and soul. Without you, I'm in hell. — Rebekkah Ford

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one. — Cullen Hightower

I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote. — Two Chainz

Fair enough ... No inhaling battery acid," I smirk. "We can't breathe battery
acid, can we? — M.A. George

Katie, when I saw you again, there was nothing I wanted to do more than stand by your side for the rest of my life. — Faith Sullivan

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end. — Tom Ford

Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music. — Alexa Anderson

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult. — Janet Jackson

Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

Colours started to seep into his black and white life — Jamie Scallion

My life might fall to shambles because of you." "Well, I'll be there to help you pick up the pieces. — Katie Kaleski

An adult should not be forced into marriage as a child is forced to eat his peas. Peas are only part of a meal. Marriage is a life's work. — Loretta Chase

The end of her life was only the beginning of her story.
Sweet Sleep — Kim Cormack

Anger is easier than forgiveness. — Ellen Hopkins

Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Clearly, she hadn't heard of the two words 'social' and 'life'. — Adele Rose

We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~Plato~ — S.S. Segran

The life of a real adult is not a life everyone is made for. Some people never grow up. — Sarvesh Jain

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges. — Danielle Steel

I have no life there if you're not in it. You're part of everything good I've ever done, Ryen. Please. — Penelope Douglas

It wasn't until I turned thirty that I started to feel like my adult life was beginning. — Amy Poehler

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. — Sigmund Freud

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy — Jennifer Gold

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation. — Frederick Lenz

Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug? — Judy Blundell

You have to be a responsible adult and support yourself because no one else is going to do it for you. — Susane Colasanti

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life. — Susan Jacoby

Words have power, and sometimes, they stay with
you for life. It's up to you to allow those words to define who you become. — Daniele Lanzarotta

Carla had realised there wasn't just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them. — Claire Chilton

An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements. — Jill Ker Conway

And so it begins. — Leon Dale

Life is a process, not an endpoint. — Sig Nilsson

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore. — Evelyn Waugh

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art. — Piper Payne

Life without madness is mediocrity. — Nelou Keramati

All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. - HEW — Michelle Warren

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. — Lorna Luft

My mom,Sarah used to tell me that you could be anywhere when you life begins but you wouldn't know it until it changed everything you thought you knew — Shey Stahl

Change your mind and change your whole life experience. — C.G. Rousing

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death. — Stephen Mitchell

You know what the secret to a happy life is?"
"No regrets. Just live in the moment. — Nicole Christie

When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way — Sunday Adelaja

Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way. — Brittany Hawes

All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. — James Nesbitt

Yes I am dark, but my eyes are full of stars. — Bella James

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life — Willard Gaylin

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this? — Hilary Mantel

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?' — Lorrie Moore

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom. — Rob Sheffield

I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that? — Amalie Howard

As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year. — Elayne Boosler

If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong. — Tom Upton

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me? — Melina Marchetta

The boy continued with a desperate note. "You may have saved my life, but it is not my life any longer, it is yours. — Jettie Necole

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment. — Lois Lowry

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. — Anita Diament

So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency — Sunday Adelaja

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life. — Jesse Kellerman

I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and don't climb out of. — Rob Sheffield

XAVIER: No one should be forced to live their life in any way other than how they choose. — Michelle A. Valentine

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies. — Vera B. Williams