Shane Dawson Quotes

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

Every teenager, I think, thinks it's the end of the world whenever anything happens, and it's not. You'll get through it. Life will be much more interesting and will certainly be broader when you're older.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

You can't be 16 forever.

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

I can't imagine life without Vogue at this point. People say, what's changed? What's different But it's just part of growing up, meeting your soulmate and moving on with life.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.