Being a kid Quote by Stephen King

“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.”

— Stephen King

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying, and dying to me doesn't sound like all that much fun.

— John Cougar Mellencamp

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live,

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Growing up means nothing, it just means your closer to your death. Now what you learn while growing up, makes that process worth while.

— Alex Cole

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out…

— Mary Wesley

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

— Henning Mankell

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

— John Mellencamp

Mysterious though it is, the choice to actually learn as an adult and devote one's will consciously to growth and learning is the most…

— M Scott Peck

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

— Richard Wollheim

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

— Billy Graham

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak ...

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

— Marty Feldman