Jason Isbell Quotes

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I never was a child.

I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

I think probably everyone can relate to wanting to believe that your parents are one thing, and having to come to the realization that they might not be.

You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then as adults, we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.

You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the first story he ever wrote me, 'Once upon a time, there was a boy.' And that became 'Once upon a time there was a boy who wanted to fly.' And they kept getting better and better over time. I never found out if the boy got to fly." I gave her a small smile. If only she knew the boy's wings had been clipped.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.