The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
One grows out of pity when it's useless.
Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
If you notice, no child star made it big when s/he grew up because the child's image was still fresh in people's memory. They could not digest the fact that the child star had grown into a man.
O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.
Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?
It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.
Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
