Audrey Hepburn Quotes

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

I had to deal with death at a really young age.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.

I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

I was born and raised in war.

I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.

If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.