Maturity Quotes

You are behaving like a f*****g child. This is a man’s world.

Children grow up thinking the adult world is ordered, rational, fit for purpose. It’s crap. Becoming a man is realising that it’s all rotten. Realising how to celebrate that rottenness, that’s freedom.

Now that you’re out of high school, which means you’re technically an adult, don’t you think it’s time you move on from primitive constructs such as popularity?[to Steve]

I’m not a kid anymore. I don’t need you to handle me.[Mark Grayson]You’re a walking nuclear bomb, Mark. The most powerful thing on this planet, and you can’t even buy a drink yet. If I didn’t try to handle you, I wouldn’t be doing my job.[Cecil Steadman]

You’re acting like a child. Do you know what grown-ups do when they make a mistake? They own up to it.[to Slightly]

You must eradicate from your essence childish folly. You must eradicate from yourself childish folly. You must abandon childish things. You must grow up.

We’re all in this cell because we can’t be kids anymore. But they won’t let us be adults.

Sometimes when a grown man runs away from home, people figure out it’s time to make peace.

No one’s gonna make you a man. Okay? You gotta do it yourself.[to Lochlan]

It’s never easy being the bigger person.[to Samantha]

It’s easy being silly in the summer when the sun’s shining and everything feels possible. But it’s September. Time to put the rose-tinted glasses away.

Is this a test?[Slightly]That’s what being an adult is. A constant test.[Kirsh]