Maturity Quotes

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Erich Maria Remarque

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Moving on, starting to change perceptions and way of living after living problems is a sign of maturity, because that person understands the situation he or she is facing.

Vinh Khanh Huynh

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Kelli Jae Baeli

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Joshua Loth Liebman

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Stephen King

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C.S. Lewis

The things you learn in maturity aren’t simple things such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to engage in self-destructive behavior. You learn not to burn up energy in anxiety. You discover how to manage your tensions. You learn that self-pity and resentment are among the most toxic of drugs. You find that the world loves talent but pays off on character.

John Gardner

Where id was, there shall ego be.

Sigmund Freud

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say, I lost it.

Sydney J. Harris

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Simone de Beauvoir

If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree oran oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

Henry David Thoreau

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.

Larry McMurtry

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Bob Dylan

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Baker