Douglas Adams Quotes

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

You know he can’t save you, right? In the real world? That guy, right there.

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.