Quotes About Maturity

Man vergibt seinem Lehrer schlecht, wenn man immer nur der Schüler bleibt. (One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.)

When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.

It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel

I learned to walk; since then I have let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.

Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one

and what fantasy can there possibly be in misery? You sense that it will at length grow weary, that it is exhausting itself in constant tension, this inexhaustible fantasy, because after all one matures, outgrows one's former ideals; they are shattered into dust and fragments; and if you have no other life, it behoves you to construct one from those same fragments.

And everywhere an indecent haste prevails, as though something would be missed if the young man of 23 were not 'finished', did not yet know the answer to the 'main question': which occupation? - A higher kind of man, if I may be forgiven for saying so, does not like 'occupations', precisely because he knows he has a calling... He has time, he takes his time, he does not even think of getting 'finished' - at thirty you are, in the sense of high culture, a beginner, a child.

at the age of thirty, when it comes to high culture, one is a beginner, a child.—

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

But disillusion is a healthy thing. It leads to reality.

George Bernard Shaw once said, "It is a pity that youth has been wasted on the young." The contrary is true. It is no secret at all that the Good Lord knew that it was better to put the illusions of life at the beginning in order that as we grew closer to eternity, we might the better see the purpose of living.

When I was younger, I used to drive like this all the time. Today I expected to be pulled over, pummeled, and summarily arrested at any moment. I felt old and stodgy.

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

El secreto de una buena vejez no es mas que un pacto honrado con la soledad.

B?trâneÈ›ea este o stare indecent? care trebuie oprit? la timp.

By the way, you are a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry?

Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Wisdom begins at the end.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

With age, you become more humble, more wise.

I am old enough and wise enough and I have been around long enough to know that things will be said - and not nice things a lot of the time. And when you are doing well, nice things will be said.

When I was at drama school some of the teachers, who were very wise, said to me, 'You're going to be a great actor in your 50s. Now, you're not malleable enough. You're doing one thing well but you need to loosen up a bit.' That happens to actors. You learn more about it and hopefully you get better at it as you get older.