Teenagers Quotes

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from Mingus at the Showplace]

~ William Matthews

2. Stutter. I can be on the phone for hours with my best friend, but if confronted by a cute guy, wham! I get power outage, my brain is short circuited. You'd be lucky to get anything out of me besides er...um...uh... and a ton of blushing.3.Stumble. I trip over my own feet. Yeah it's easy to do that when you're five feet seven and gangly, but I managed to make the dance teacher cry when I was five years old. Or even worse, I knock things over and spill things over and spill food.

~ Aya Ling

It appeared the more religious and older men got, the more insatiable their appetite grew for teenage hymens; a short sighted, selfish, entitled and wicked appetite at that by the kind of men who were disillusioned enough to believe that the world revolved around their poles.

~ Dauglas Dauglas

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?

~ Dennis Lehane

A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples hascombined to deny young people the love and attention they trulydeserve, more and more teenagers are leaving home to peer up withbad influence which eventually lands them in jail for the lucky onesand six feet under for the not so lucky.

~ Oche Otorkpa

My work with teenagers has convinced me that one of the main reasons teenagers are not excited by the gospel is that they do not think they need it. Many parents have successfully raised self-righteous little Pharisees. When they look at themselves, they do not see a sinner in desperate need, so they are not grateful for a Savior. Sadly, the same is true of many of their parents.

~ Timothy D. Lane

And if people can see themselves for who they really are, they will know that every person has a dark side!~ Aarush Kashyap

~ Kirtida Gautam

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

~ Magenta Periwinkle

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

~ Elizabeth Berg

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media’s depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don’t have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

~ Erica Sehyun Song

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

~ Rom Amor

It's one thing to be a wisecracking precocious teen hanging out with twenty-seven year olds.It's another thing to get in the way of a grown man trying to get laid.

~ Tina Fey

The young of the town, preoccupied with their own germinating angst, which each possessed in varying degree (though few were ever fully aware of its existence), felt no particular connection to the land, its people, its structures, or its history. As such, they had no inclination to defend its invisible borders from declared enemies within or without. They desired only escape from this small village, which each viewed as an existential prison built upon the antiquated expectations of their parents and their parents’ parents. And because of their invisible bondage, the young of this town were possessed by a quiet rage. But this rage laid torpid and inert within them, dulled to sleep by the tired repetition of nothing happening over and over and over again, day after day after day.This is the story of one of those young people, and the terrible things that happened to her, and the terrible things she did as a result.

~ P.s. Baber

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

~ Karen Cushman

When adults say, Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

~ John Green

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

~ Kami Garcia

The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid, but it you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did!

~ Gerard Way

People say teenagers think they're immortal, and I agree with that. But I think there's a difference between thinking you're immortal and knowing you can survive. Thinking you're immortal leads to arrogance, thinking you deserve the best. Surviving means having the worst thrown at you and being able to continue on despite that. It means striving for what you want most, even when it seems our of your reach, even when everything is working against you.

~ Francesca Zappia

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

~ Kelly Link

Juno MacGuff: Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

~ Diablo Cody

For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

~ Diablo Cody

She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?

~ Courtney Summers

I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

~ Stephen King

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

~ Meg Rosoff

Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.

~ Julia Karr

Let your inner DORK shine through.

~ Rachel Renée Russell

...real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They're still learning, just like you.

~ Stacey Jay

High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that's before the truckload of homework.

~ Taylor Gaskins

Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we’re rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we’re so ready for our rebellious phase we can’t help but feel it’s safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

~ Daniel Handler

Why does she always seem to think you drive like we're holding up a bank?Roswell grinned and rolled his eyes, Because that's what teenagers do, right? They also carve swastikas into their arms, steal prescription drugs from old people, and freebase cocaine. I need to institute a policy where she stops watching 60 Minutes and pretty much all public service announcements.

~ Brenna Yovanoff

This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation.

~ Jennifer Niven

Post-adolescent Expert SyndromeThe tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

~ Douglas Coupland

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

~ Marisha Pessl

Homeschool doesn’t give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It justgives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone’s lame Facebook joke.

~ Kim Culbertson

We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years

~ Dan Chaon

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

~ Eric Hoffer

To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

~ Rubye Armorer

Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!

~ Penny Kittle