Quotes About Maturity

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?

I'm forty-two years old—which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.

You start to grow up and you learn from all the stories around you what the world is like, and yous tart to lose freedoms. Not because anybody actually tells you that you've lost them, but because you know you need to take care...Beware darkness, isolation, the outdoors, unlocked windows, men you don't know. And then you realize too that even men you know, or thought you knew, might not be okay.

Perhaps she had learned already those lessons in life that make smiling difficult.

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

Indeed, while experiences and information can be good teachers, there are many times in life where we simply cannot afford to learn on the job. You don't want to have to go through multiple marriages to learn how to be a good spouse.

There comes an age in life when you realize that blaming and regretting are a waste of precious time.

Youth inhabits his face like a hermit crab its borrowed shell. He will outgrow his shelter sooner than he thinks. Only then will he know what it is to be naked.

With Floyd we had three hundred and ninety-eight years between us. All that bitter experience, he said, and not one of us wise.

At thirty-four, she'd decided she'd grown out of sex. Bed was for sleep, especially for fat girls.

It was teenage partying on adult paycheques.

Se continui a guardarmi così, Victoria, sarò felice di darti quello che vuoi. Dopotutto, non sei più una bambina Sebastian a Victoria

He ate every miserable spoonful and ever since it struck him that adults are always trying to buy off children to make them forget their bad actions.

Part of moving up in the world is realizing how much shit you used to eat.

Once you got that old, you might as well be ninety-eight or a hundred and eight. Nothing left for the world to show you but the latest incarnations of cruelty.

It was in the realm of his humor, and Carney had doubtless laughed. You get older and the old jokes grow less funny.

The boys knew to hide their enthusiasm over little kid things that still had an allure.

The signs had been there since he could walk, and he perfected the more distasteful aspects of his personality as he lurched into manhood and assumed his responsibilities.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

At Yale, when he was young and headstrong, he'd been sure that one day he'd be the very axis of the world, that his life would be one of deep impact. But every young man thought that. A condition of youth, your own importance. The mark you'd make upon the world. But a man learns sooner or later. You take your little nice and you make it your own.

Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)