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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about adulthood that will inspire maturity, responsibility, and growing up.
What Is Adulthood Sayings
1. “Adulthood is a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in” – Ian Caldwell
2. “Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self” – John Fowles
3. “Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age” – Thomas Szasz
4. “True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we’ve expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways” – Lynn Coady
5. “Adulthood isn’t black and white – it’s a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It’s not who you are, it’s where you are” – Elizabeth Noble
6. “Meeting your obligations is the definition of adulthood. If you’re going to make mistakes and break promises, now’s the time” – Nicola Yoon
7. “Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live” – Robert Bly
Short Quotes About Adulthood
8. “With adulthood comes responsibility” – Mary Lydon Simonsen
9. “Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control” – Juan Gabriel
10. “Don’t rush into adulthood, it isn’t all that much fun” – Bob Newhart
11. “Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift” – Frances McDormand
12. “Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood” – Joy Browne
13. “Adulthood is just a number” – Jeffrey Cranor
Funny Quotes About Adulthood
14. “Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What’s excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly” – Hank Green
15. “Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child” – Nelson Rodrigues
16. “The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep” – Paula Poundstone
17. “Adulthood is realizing that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it” – Sarah Beeny
18. “Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane” – Joe King
19. “Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you” – Dylan Moran
20. “Adulthood: It’s when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do” – Marilyn vos Savant
21. “Adulthood is like looking both ways to cross a street only to get hit by a falling object. Unpredictable and headache inducing” – Lani Lynn Vale
Adulthood Is Hard Quotes
22. “The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing” – Jason Kander
23. “Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you” – Hanya Yanagihara
24. “The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence” – Bruce Springsteen
25. “The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts” – Robert Redford
26. “You think that adulthood will hit and you’ll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn’t happen, ever, does it?” – Sally Hawkins
27. “The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life” – Darren Hardy
28. “Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people” – Neal Shusterman
29. “One of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing” – Kate Millet
30. “One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of” – John Green
31. “The triumph of adulthood is learning how to love others and becoming sociably responsible. The tragedy of adulthood is the loss of the sense of wonder for the majesty of creation” – R.A. Delmonico
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