Adults Quote by Rebecca Miller

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually…

— Anonymous

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

— Jessamyn West

I believe Stoicism can help anyone who takes it seriously and begins to practice it. It will help them flourish because it will provide…

— Massimo Pigliucci

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's…

— Ryan Holiday

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

— Juliette Lewis

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

— Neil Gaiman

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

— Edmund White

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan

“As social beings, it is in our relationships that we have most opportunity to flourish. Indeed, the Stoics argued that our own self-interest, as…

— Donald J. Robertson

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon…

— Robert Lepage