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Quotes For People Who Know Growing Up Is Great — Until You Get Old

Updated September 7, 2021

I'm sure I'm not the only one who used to fantasize about how "great" life would be as an adult.

Maybe middle school had me feeling down, or maybe I was sick of going to bed at 9 PM, but I can vividly remember spending hours imagining myself as a rich, successful, maneater of a woman who could buy McDonald's whenever she wanted and watch that scary movie on TV that her dad kept making her turn off when she was 12.

Of course, now I'm an adult and I've realized one very important fact about life: growing up is great...until you get old. If you've also come to this conclusion, I think you're really going to enjoy these quotes.

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Either way, I guarantee you will be the one thing everyone remembers from that party, because either you embarrassed yourself or you terrified a room full of people.

Hey, there's your legacy.

Time to just accept it.

I can pretend these dark circles under my eyes are from staying up too late but who are we kidding? I go to bed at 10 o'clock.

I've made a terrible mistake.

Twitter | @@soccrchik17

Birthdays suddenly aren't so fun when you're on the wrong side of 25...and then the wrong side of 30...and then 40...and then suddenly you're ready to make a deal with the devil so you don't have to see the other side of 50 yet.

Fell off that bike hard.

Twitter | @kimcormack

Last week I made the mistake of seeing if I could still do the splits.

I haven't gotten off the floor since. I live here now. This is my life. If you need me, odds are you'll find me right in the exact same spot. Please forward all my mail.