"Thirty was so strange for me. I've..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
More by C S Lewis
“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.”
“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.”
“Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.”
More on Adulthood
“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.”
“As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to pretend that I got there accidentally. "How the hell did I get up here? I guess I have to slide down. Whee!" That's what you say when you're having fun. You refer to yourself and some other people.”
“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.”
More on Maturity
“Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.”
“Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.”
“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”