Katherine Dunn Quotes

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

Adults are obsolete children.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

We've all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side, all it does is take us to this new level of existence that is more beautiful and more complex and, in some ways, more painful.

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

I had to grow up fast.

I had to grow up very quickly.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

I had to grow up a little fast.

My girls had to grow up quick because of everything we've been through.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.