Quotes About Maturity

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

The kid in you just leaked out, like the air out of a tire. And one day you looked in the mirror and there was a grownup looking back at you.

Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side.

Tell you what, the worst part of growing up is how it shuts you up.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.

For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little spread over all your scruples is an absolute necessity!

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like.

Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.

When we grow up, concepts gradually get easier and we leave the images to the poets

A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

If being a grown-up really meant knowing better, why did his father go on smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day and snorting cocaine until his nose bled? If being a grown-up gave you some sort of special knowledge of the right things to do, how come his mother was sleeping with her masseuse, who had huge biceps and no brains?

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It's only kids in high school who are convinced they're never going to change. There's always going to be a pep rally and there's always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.

Has it ever occurred to you, he said abruptly, that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? I shook my head. Tell you what I think, he said, I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit in their pants until they learned better.

I always wondered about growing up. I bet it's mostly lies.

Rivers of wrinkles flowing down from the corners of this eyes and mouth.

Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning.

Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence

Reconciliation is the most significant level of life's maturity!