Quotes About Maturity

Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden)

If you don't hear from him for a little longer than usual, show him that you have absolutely no "attitude" about

Come to think of it, he'd been pleased to find out that Lady Ingram had as little interest in breakfast as he did. Had thought it a further sign that they were true soul mates. Which only went to show that the choice of soul mates should not be left to barely post-adolescent young men.

Love is by and large a perishable good and it is lamentable that young people are asked to make irrevocable, till-death-do-we-part decisions in the midst of a short-lived euphoria.

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishment makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

The kind of child our society resembles just now is one whose intelligence far exceeds his maturity. Every teacher and every parent knows what a formula for disaster that can be.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?

It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life.

Man or boy, woman or girl, they had for a moment taken hold of the thing that makes the mature life of men and women in the modern world possible.

I am becoming old and queer.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

It took me twenty years to hone my current definition of Gone.

you can actually taste the sources of unhappiness breaking up….The taste of purification can't be put into words, but its acquisition marks the transition to a mature spiritual palate…There is a taste that comes about, when a person experiences pleasure or pain with equanimity. It doesn't matter if…emotions or physical pain exist. Every moment of the future will become marginally less filled with suffering and more fulfilling….

At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing--and possibly never would, which depressed me until I noticed that no one else knew anything either.

You became an adult when you stopped caring what other people thought about you and started to care what you thought about them.

Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She

Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

There is no point in being experienced, if you haven't learned anything.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.