Teenage Turmoil Quotes

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend.

In time, you won’t need it to do that. You’ll be able to access that part of yourself anytime you need to. But for now, you’ll require a tool to help you channel all that teenage hormonal ADD that’s bouncing around and through you.” – Death

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

Teen boys are a huge mess.

A lot of my songs are about being a teenager with a tornado in your head.

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was - I wasn't going to be able to be a different person. At 17, you feel like a freak already, and so to have that fire and brimstone against your attraction is just screwed up!

I spent the majority of my teenage years in hospitals, rehabs and halfway houses.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she's 21, she's totally flailing. Your story gives me hope.' I put my mom through that.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.