Quotes About Maturity

Ahora debía de tener veintisiete, una edad espléndida, cuando la juventud ha perdido su arrogancia y se vuelve algo más sensata gracias a la experiencia.

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting. Why don't you grow up by yourself? she asked him, and wondered how many people—how many women—had already asked him that.

Why don't you grow up by yourself?

As he grew older, his voice became rusty and only the weeping remained—but it was the sort of weeping that could move a wall, or wake the dead.

You can be taught knowledge, but only game wisdom when you are ready.

The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

If children could, if adults knew.

Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.

Olgunluk, doyumu erteleyebilme kabiliyetidir.

Happiness is a child's dream fulfilled in maturity.

Perfection is the child of time.—BISHOP JOSEPH HALL, WORKS

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as instrument of her transcendence, but an object destined for another.

What is an adult? A child puffed with age.

Those who are lacking in goodwill or who remain adolescent are never free under any form of society.

He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day.

We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?

We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups? No, what we all of us must have

Parents begin by loving their children; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

She was a very old soul, which meant that her life was driven by love and not ego.

Forse sono priva di quel particolare gene che ti fa maturare [...] Tutti stanno andando avanti senza di me, verso un mondo che non comprendo.

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.

Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything.