Quotes About High School

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

“In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn’t good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.”
― Jarod Kintz, Great Listener Series Mute Women

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
― Frank Zappa

“High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.”
― John Mayer

“ That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere.”
― Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die

“Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“In high school I got voted most likely to get voted for something. Even though I was the only one who voted, it still felt terrific being nominated.”
― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

“Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.”
― Lish McBride, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

“High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“In high school I tried out for the spelling team, but only because I really wanted a letter jacket.”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the story my great-grandfather told my father, who then told my grandfather, who then told me about how The Mythical Mr. Boo, Charles Manseur Fizzlebush Grissham III, better known as Mr. Fizzlebush, and Orafoura are all in fact me...

“Imagine 4 years.
Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one abortion), three overdoses, countless drunken antics, pantsings, spilled food, theft, fights, broken limbs, turf wars–every day, a turf war–six months until graduation and no one gets a medal when they get out. But everything you do here counts.

High school.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.”
― Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule

“High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters Manga #1

“Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

“Being kind is one of the hardest thing to be in high school because you're so terrified of being cut down yourself that you're always on your guard. But don't be like that. Be kind and you will be truly different. A standout. Unique and happy.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

“You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself."
Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought...”
― Janette Rallison, Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

“I think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't act on it, you'll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that's more convenient for you.”
― Meg Cabot, How to Be Popular

“I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom and Prejudice

“The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we didn't know anything yet.”
― Hilary Winston

“I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.”
― John Scalzi, Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008

“This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone.”
― Jenna-Lynne Duncan, Hurricane

“The corners of Bree’s mouth were tilted up into a huge grin. It was her I’ve just seen a super duper hot guy grin.

Hot?” Raine asked, already knowing the answer.

Bree nodded. “Hell to the yeah!”

Like, Alex Pettyfer hot?”

Dude, he puts Alex Pettyfer to shame!”
― Regan (Raine A Witch Story.)