Adam Phillips - Jean Rostand - Jean-Louis Gassee - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Ryan Gosling - Stephen King - William Golding - Trailer Park Boys 2001-2018 -
8,877. I think Jack [Lord of the Flies] is a fake grown-up. Jack’s a boy enacting the idea of adulthood rather than have become an adult. And what you get then is a caricature of what adulthood is like when Children pretend to be adults. (Children & Adult) Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and author
62,438. To be adult is to be alone. (Adult & Alone) Jean Rostand 1954
62,439. Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive. (Adult & Pleasure) Jean-Louis Gassee
62,440. I don’t like being with grown-up people. I’ve known that a long time. I don’t like it because I don’t know how to get on with them. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
62,441. Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. Ryan Gosling
81,326. Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. (Monster & Adulthood) Stephen King, It
95,219. We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? William Golding, Lord of the Flies
126,031. Look, let’s just pretend we’re adults here for a moment please. (Gangstas: Canada & Nova Scotia & Trailers & Mockumentaries & Adult) Trailer Park Boys s2e7: The Bare Pimp Project, Mr Lehey