Adult Life Quotes

“We are all, of course, wayfaring strangers on this earth. But coming out of the rainbow tunnel, the liminal portal between Marin and San Francisco, myth and reality, I catch sight of a beautiful, sparkling city that might as well be on the moon. I can name the sights, the streets, the eateries, but in my heart it feels as unfamiliar as Cape Town or Cuzco. I've lived here for fourteen years. This is the arena of my adult life, with its large defeats and small victories. Maybe, like all transplants (converts?), I've asked too much of the city. I would never have moved to Pittsburh or Houston or L.A. expecting it to save my soul. Only here in the great temple by the bay. It's a mistake we've been making for decades, and probably a necessary one. The city's flaws, of course, are numerous. Our politics can suffer from humourless stridency, and life here is menacingly expensive. But if you're insulated from these concerns, sufficiently employed and housed, if you are -in other words- like most people, you are in view of the unbridgeable ideal. Here, with our plentiful harvest, our natural beauty, our bars, our bookstores, our cliffs and ocean, out free to be you and me; here, where pure mountain water flows right out of the tap. It's here that the real questions become inescapable. In fact the proximity of the ideal makes us more acutely aware of the real questions. Not the run-of-the-mill insolubles-Why am I here? Who am I?- but the pressing questions of adult life: Really? and Are you sure? And Now what?”
― Scott Hutchins, A Working Theory of Love

“You try all your life to be an adult, but something deep down inside you will always be that child.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“disse a raposa - Os homens não têm mais tempo de conhecer coisa alguma. Compram tudo já pronto nas lojas. Mas, como não existem lojas de amigos, os homens não têm mais amigos.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe: Com ilustrações do autor

“As pessoas grandes aconselharam-me a deixar de lado os desenhos de jiboias abertas ou fechadas e a dedicar-me de preferência à geografia, à história, à matemática, à gramática. Foi assim que abandonei, aos seis anos, uma promissora carreira de pintor. Fora desencorajado pelo insucesso do meu desenho número 1 e do meu desenho número 2. As pessoas grandes não compreendem nada sozinhas, e e´cansativo, para as crianças, ficar toda hora explicando...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Principe

“disse a raposa - Eis o meu segredo. É muito simples: só se vê bem com o coração. O essencial é invisível aos olhos.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe: Com ilustrações do autor

“Os homens - disse o pequeno príncipe - embarcam nos trens, mas já não sabem mais o que procuram. Então eles se agitam, sem saber para onde ir. [...] E isso não leva a nada...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe: Com ilustrações do autor

“When you're a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you're an adult you realize that's the worst part of it. That you have to have opinions all the time, you have to decide which party to vote for and what wallpaper you like and what your sexual preferences are and which flavour yoghurt best reflects your personality. You have to make choices and be chosen by others, every second, the whole time.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.”
― Sophie Kinsella

“The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A flor, um dia, vira passar uma caravana:
- Os homens? [...] Não se pode nunca saber onde se encontram. O vento os leva. Eles não têm raízes. Eles não gostam das raízes.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe: Com ilustrações do autor

“At some point in any adult life, we have to understand that business decisions cannot be made with an emotional bias.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings

“Magical excitement underpins childhood Christmases, post-Christmas debt overtakes adult ones.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I was completely alone, but I had never felt safer. It wasn’t the bricks around me that I’d somehow managed to rent or the roof over my head that I was most grateful for. It was the home I now carried on my back like a snail. The sense that I was finally in responsible and loving hands.
Love was there in my empty bed. It was piled up in the records Lauren bought me when we were teenagers. It was in the smudged recipe cards from my mum in between the pages of cookbooks in my kitchen cabin. Love was in the bottle of gin tied with a ribbon that India had packed me off with; in the smeary photo-strips with curled corners that would end up stuck to my fridge. It was in the note that lay on the pillow next to me, the one I would fold up and keep in the shoebox of all the other notes she had written before.
I woke up safe in my one-woman boat. I was gliding into a new horizon; floating in a sea of love.
There it was. Who knew? It had been there all along.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love