Maturity Crisis Quotes

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

What has happened to the adult human?

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror.

I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up -​ that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.

There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck.

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

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.