Adulthood Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

— John Fowles

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

— Antoine Rivarol

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A recent article about the return of wildlife to suburbia described snow-covered yards in which the footprints of animals are abundant and those of…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that…

— Lillian Hellman

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet…

— Samuel Johnson

“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

— Shirley Hazzard

“Deep inside, each man feels — and believes — himself to be immortal, even if he knows he will perish the next moment. We…

— Emil M. Cioran

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom…

— Paulo Coelho

“Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to that nebulous…

— Marquis de Sade