Paul Eluard Quotes

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

You know I'm 27, but I've been traveling since I was 16, 17 years old. You see a lot of things, you hear a lot of things, and it definitely matures you a lot faster than it would other people. I think in that case it's definitely made me a stronger person.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

Listen, when I was real young, I thought I was made out of steel. I didn't think anything could hurt me, I was so powerful. But as time goes on, you find out you are not made of steel.

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

Children are very fair minded, they really are.

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.