“Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.”
Source: Imago (1989), Chapter II, “Exile” section 9 (p. 649)
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“Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.”
Source: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 6)

“Childhood is precious… Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.”
David Webb Show http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/05/ohio-male-rnc-member-calls-carly-fiorina-hot-babe/ (5 August 2015).
2010s, 2015, David Webb Show (August 2015)

https://books.google.com/books?id=CbfTjcDmA6gC&pg=RA1-PA26&lpg=RA1-PA26&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false The Book of Life (1921)

“Overt anxiety… that part of anxiety of which the individual is aware and ready to speak.”
Source: The Scientific Analysis of Personality, 1965, p. 372

“To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.”
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)