Plato Quotes

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Old men are children for the second time.

The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.

...an old man is twice a child.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

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

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

What is so real as the cry of a child?

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.

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.

I am a child who is getting on.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children grow up, they start to realize that they're not as powerful as they thought and that they need other people in order survive. Then the child begins to love and to hope his love will be requited; and as life goes on, he develops an ever-greater need to be loved in return, even if that means having to give up his power. We all end up where we are now: Grown-ups doing everything we can to be accepted and loved.