Immaturity Quotes

“It is conducive to serenity to see the vast majority of people as the children they are spiritually and intellectually.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some children grow up before their parents.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“The immature think maturity is mutually exclusive with playfulness.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people’s immaturity is intensified by their stupidity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One of our most serious challenges is that we mature sexually way before we do mentally. And what’s worse is that mental maturity is not even guaranteed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Only those who have long stopped growing mentally have a problem with growing older.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is often a result of growth not to be known by someone who once knew you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many of those who might grow up someday are already adults.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“People will always have something to say about you because they’re perpetually preoccupied with avoiding what they would say about themselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Tough men are tough not because they want to be tough, but because they have to be tough. Outgrow the adolescent fawning over being a tough guy, and you will become a tough man.”
― Criss Jami

“When you are immature, you pride yourself on petty things such as being older than someone or some people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are all too often robbed of an opportunity to squeeze joy out of life by the result of our desire to create or perpetuate the impression that we are not stupid, childish, or crazy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Millions of fools are over the age of 50.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Who knew an angel could turn into a demon and
Unconditional love turn into thieving
Guess your superpower was deceiving”
― Nomzamo Nhlumayo

“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We ignore the child within by ascribing its voice to immaturity rather than validating its heart as honest.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I am unwilling to step up and look beyond the stunted reach of my own agendas, if I am unwilling embrace the truth even though it may run frustratingly contrary to my most innate desires, if I am unwilling to respect my fellowman even though our disagreements may be irritatingly vast...if I am so lifelessly entrenched in the bane of my own immaturity that I am ignorantly unwilling to do these things and rather choose to play the fool dressed in the garb of wisdom and other such assorted notions, 'common sense' will always be a phrase but never a standard.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Newspaper publishers profit greatly from the widespread belief that reading newspapers gives others the impression that one is smart or at least mature.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A blessing we do not understand, or are not ready for, can be a curse.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Masculinity and femininity attract one another, and their attributes are complementary; however this entails more than simply a male being attracted to a female: What actually complements the immature man who runs around, or cheats, or neglects his duties, is the masculine woman because he needs her to lead and to take charge, to take care of him. Immaturity is a state of need, and one of those needs is the need to be kept in check.”
― Criss Jami

“If you claim something to be what it is not because you dislike what it is, you have forever forfeited what it could have been in a trade-off for what it will never be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“[Silent Messages 2]
She sat to rearrange the contents of her disorganized handbag
At the crowded bus terminal
When she lifted her head for a short interval,
Her eyes caught a young couple kissing, touching, and hugging
In a performative and exaggerated manner...
When the couple noticed her,
The young woman gave her a mean and malicious look as if asking:
Are you jealous of all the love I am surrounded by?
She returned the look with a sly one as if responding:
The love that exaggerates in displaying itself in public
Is either immature, dead, or dying…

[Original poem published in Arabic on December 5, 2022 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“An adult can correctly tell a kid, ‘what you are I was and what I am you will be’. And unlike a child he cannot misplace priority due to purity and immaturity.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“The face Isaac made when bonding with his aluminum toy would have made you smile. The innocence of it. It was one of those mind-lending activities that make us like people—like spying on someone playing the piano or solving a puzzle. Every person looks like a child when de-seeding a pomegranate. If you watch someone open a juice box, however old, you’ll see them young again—their soft, wondering face. It’s one of the most ephemeral beauties for the eyes to partake in.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“After finishing his breakfast. Charlie decided to clean the kitchen, but wanted to do it entirely with one leg. He laughed his way through the cabinets, inside the sink, on the floor, under the table, and against the walls like a kid who gets a kick out of making things harder for themself. It was none other than the heart of sport, for what was a sport but a project made to be harder for a player? To pass the ball but only with your feet. To have three chances to bat. To play catch with a friend, but without gloves. The fun was to see if you could do it. But when non-athletic hardships come, the adults mysteriously run.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“This is why I'm against marrying young. When you're young, you marry your holes and burrow into them like a childhood bed, until you realize that you've outgrown the bed, and then it's, you know, the hassle of wanting a new bed, of looking for a new bed, of getting a new bed, assembling the bed, adjusting to the bed.
I don't want to be reminded of my childhood bed.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“People do profoundly stupid things. When they have to pay the price, and there’s always a price, they blame God, their parents, the universe and everything under the sun except themselves.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman