Quotes About Maturity

Will you tell me who hurt you?' I imagine saying, 'You.' But that is nothing more than childishness.

They have wrinkles, but no wisdom. I took them to war before they could do any of those things that steady a man. They were unmarried when they left. They had no children. They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save. They have not seen their parents grow old and begin to fail. They have not seen them die. I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth but their age as well.

I had never seen the age between them so clearly before. My keen son, and this man who chose to be no one.

Comment avions-nous pu nous croire adultes?

We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.

Your son is not yet a man." Tyndareus' voice seemed far away. I could detect nothing in it.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I'd broken down and written him first, after a year of silence.

How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted," says Goethe's sorrowful young Werther. "How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement.

How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted

think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I'd broken down and written him first, after a year of silence. Angry and hurt as I may have been by his departure, his observation was undeniably correct. This slice of truth, offered in the final hour, ended up beginning a new chapter of my adulthood, the one in which I realized that age doesn't necessarily bring anything with it, save itself. The rest is optional.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

You must come out into the real world and face these problems sensibly and maturely. These lavatories are just an adolescent escape-mechanism, like going to the pictures; they're a dream world. You must come to terms with things, and not expect too much.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

His eyes were a lot older than fifteen." Persephone Hadley(,regarding Callum McGregor)

You're not fifteen any more. You're not the idealistic kid who thought that, deep down, somewhere, somehow, in some way, life had to be fair." — Callum McGregor

His eyes were a lot older than fifteen.

He suddenly seemed so much older, not just in years but in the things he knew and had experienced.

Time gives good advice.

We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the ignorance of the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become.

The man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods, but only he who has true knowledge; he, though young, is old.