![]() "Youth was the time for happiness, its only season young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies. Lewis, Dedication, The Lion the Witch and the WardrobeĤ. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. "My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”ģ. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished."Ģ. ![]() The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. "He wanted to care, and he could not care. If you seek understanding on these complicated emotions, you won't have to go much further than the library or even your own bookshelf, because these 22 quotes about growing up come from classic and contemporary writers.ġ. They might not even be the ones who are writing those typical coming-of-age stories, but they have experienced these feelings themselves. And sometimes there are these writers who just dig right in to your soul and get at the very heart of what you're feeling. The feeling of growing up is all twisted and warped around the idea of identity, about who we are as people, which is one of the most common themes of literature of all time. ![]() Sometimes it's less than awesome, longing for the carefree joys of childhood, as nostalgic and misremembered as they may be. Sometimes it's a good feeling, coming to understandings about yourself and the world. For centuries, writers have been trying to capture that feeling of aging and getting older. ![]()
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