Karl Kraus Quotes

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I'm a big kid.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Adults are obsolete children.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

I'm a big kid, you know?

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.

I've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Age merely shows what children we remain.