Quotes About Maturity

She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.

Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and till Doomsday

Fine, Connor tells him. Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen. I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her.

Instead of ignoring me, Frankie was suddenly noticing every little thing I did, wondering why I did it. Christina started asking me questions about things, like I was the smarter brother. Dad was now confiding in me about things that were really none of my business, and Mom started treating me like I was actually a responsible human being. It was all very disturbing.

In the days before Rowan's apprenticeship, Tyger Salazar had been his best friend Ã¢â'¬â€œ but such designations meant little after one has spent a year learning how to kill.

Un niño no aprende a caminar si siempre lo llevan en unos amorosos brazos. Y una especie no puede crecer si nunca se enfrenta a las consecuencias de sus acciones. Negarle a la humanidad la lección de las consecuencias sería un error.

Una especie no puede crecer si nunca se enfrenta a las consecuencias de sus acciones.

I will not tolerate childish pastimes or vapid communications with friends. Commitment to this life means leaving behind your old life as fully as possible. When, a year from now, I choose between you, the unchosen one can return to his or her former life easily enough. But for now, consider that life a part of your past.

Humankind must be pushed out of the nest if it is ever to grow beyond its current state.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had done any fucking) and now that we are hardly kids any longer we think more about how not to die and although we're ready most of us would prefer to do it alone under the sheets now that most of us have fucked our lives away.

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. What is your advice to older writers? If you're still alive, you don't need any advice. What is the impulse that makes you create a poem? What makes you take a shit?

You know, doctor, wisdom comes at a hell of an hour—when youth is gone, the storm is over and the girls have gone home.

that boy was ready for his life to come, he would undoubtedly be highly successful, the lying little prick.

often it takes a lifetime to learn how to react to certain critical situations. it's worth waiting for the arrival of maturity and confidence. try it sometime and see how delightful it is to feel powerful and alive.

a man can be old and a fool many are a man can be young and wise few are

My heart is a thousand years old.

we were never children like your children. We do not understand love songs like your inamorata.

he tells me that he has seen me in issue No. 5 of Crablegs and Muletears and that I am getting better, and I tell him that I am a slow starter and being only 42