Adults Quote by John Irving

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

— Anonymous

“In such cases the natural needs appropriate to the child’s age cannot be integrated, so they are repressed or split off. This person will…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

— Oscar Wilde

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

— Rashida Jones

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits…

— Piers Anthony

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real…

— Shirley Hazzard

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

— Chad Harbach

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

— May Sarton

Being a younger parent doesn't prevent tragedy.

— Amanda Redman

“The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Administration, Leadership, Parental Abuse And Mistakes Can Make A Child More Matured Than Their Age. It…

— Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care…

— Ashly Lorenzana