Growing Up Quotes

No more dreamin about the whole adult gig,We’re no longer burnin’ toward nothing, dude. Just well on our way on a mythical ship, which no longer touches Land. God Bless the Cap’n.

~ Alexej Savreux

No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)

~ Bill Willingham

The problem is not that Santa stops existing but that we do. The children we are no longer exist, a fact we do not help through immersing ourselves in the repeating cycle of wake, work, dinner, internet, sleep.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Your scared and my scared are two different things.''What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.'As you get older, you don't recover from things so easy.''As you get older, you also get tired?''Yeah,' I said, 'you get tired.

~ Haruki Murakami

That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.

~ Connor Franta

The only thing worse than not knowing where she belonged...was knowing where she didn't.

~ Tessa Shaffer

Some days, Kaylin fervently wished that she had already passed Adult 101 and could get on with being the person she wanted to be.

~ Michelle Sagara

It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invisible bars of the lives we have somehow carelessly constructed for ourselves, despite our youthful promises to ourselves. We see adults who are stagnant and miserable as we grow up. They graffiti the walls behind them with their mistakes and we swear secret oaths that we will heed those warnings. We’re much too clever, we know all the shortcuts and the back alleys.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Of all the Fairy strangeness she had known, this seemed suddenly both the strangest and least strange of all. How she would have liked to be looked after like that, cared for and watched over. And yet at the same time, she understood the Whelk, and wished she could grow big enough to hold on to everyone she loved at once. To keep them safe and with her always and know their secret needs well enough to answer them.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

~ Michael A. Stackpole

Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.

~ Rachel Wolchin

One day soon, she'd have to leave the beach behind and go and find her real life, out in the rest of the world. The beach would shrink and fade and become part of her discarded childhood. Sometimes she almost wishes her father had never brought them here to live. Why show her what it was like to live in Paradise when her only choice was to leave again?

~ Cassandra Parkin

Oh bell-dumb heart, it makes you a fool to think you were ever closer to opening up the world — to art, to breaking it apart — than those who came before. But knowing that can't make you read or breathe more slowly. Since when did you listen to anyone? To give up on motivation is to give up on the work we do with alphabet and light. It's not enough to hunt or haunt our parents' hearts; we must occupy our own.

~ Ander Monson

I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The problem with such a state of affairs was not that you did not get to do what you wanted---sometimes you did---but the effort to appease or resist the reigning deities left you so exhausted that it prevented you from ever really having fun. To this day having fun, just plain enjoying myself, comes at the cost of a conviction that I have committed an undetected crime.

~ Azar Nafisi

She had gills while other people were breathing with lungs. There was, however, no point in dwelling on it, as it was too later to grow up differently.

~ Sonja Yoerg

It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now. ~quote by Roe'vaash in Then'diel's HEART

~ K. Farrell St. Germain

Have you ever noticed how as an adult, all the bright colors go out of your life? Now that I’m not a kid anymore, things always look gray, like a clothesline draped with laundry that’s been washed too many times and left to stand in the wind. I guess that’s what growing up is… it’s a fading photograph.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.

~ Jessie Burton

The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.

~ Emily Dickinson

You'll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you'll be able to speak out or keep your mouth shut. It's always a challenge to work out the best way to live your life, and as much as everyone tells you what to do, ultimately how you do things is up to you.

~ Kate Jacobs

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

~ Gabrielle Hamilton

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

~ David Bennun

One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.

~ J.r. Tompkins

We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.

~ David Vann

He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

~ Stuart Mclean

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.

~ Hafiz

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I’d ask you to be careful tomorrow, if I thought you’d listen to me,’ I said to him.He looked sympathetic but annoyed. ‘Mum, I’m not a baby anymore.’ Then sensing that I was on the verge of crying, he hugged me gently to his chest. I couldn’t remember the last time he’d hugged me this way. With my face pressed next to his heart I whispered softly, ‘You’ll always be my baby.’ The hug grew firmer and the teardrops began to fall freely.

~ Teresa Schulz

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

~ Mike Carey

The last remnants of Deanna the child--the idealist, the sheltered elite--had been torn loose by tonight's tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new person inhabiting this shell of her old self would become. The realization frightened her.

~ Leslie Ann Moore

It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.

~ Julie Klam

I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.

~ Janet Turpin Myers

The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

~ Richard Linklater

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

~ Jack London

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

~ Kim Dong Hwa

I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.

~ Crystal Woods

As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood.

~ John Updike

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

~ Matthew Quick