Dylan Moran Quotes

School is a foretaste of life.

I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

Adulthood is hell.

For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don't think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.

Life isn't all about entertainment.

I'm just a brother trying to figure it all out.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

I think finding the way in life is the hardest part. At every stage of life, every trial, every success, you know, you're going into some kind of fog. There isn't a plan that suddenly reveals itself, and you go, "Ta-da! Now I understand."

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

Now, I meant to talk about something else earlier on, and I've forgotten what it was. I've remembered what it is again, but I've also forgotten. And that's really what adult life is like most of the time.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.