Childish Quotes

“If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up things.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Put down your glass,
it is time to dance.
If you want to get drunk
all you need is to drink love.
Put down your pipe
and do away with these childish toys.
If you want to get high
all you need is to breathe love.
Now,
can I have this dance?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“But the writing we call children’s fiction is not a childish thing: childish things include picking your nose and eating the contents, and tantruming at the failure to get your own way. The 45th President of America is childish. Children’s fiction has childhood at its heart, which is not the same thing.”
― Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

“It is childish to envy someone for something you do not need.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are broken. Our ways are apart.
Still we laugh together and taunt.
We fight and get hurt...
Still we don't stop!
We spread love among us,
With the scent of believe.
We write on live.
Our dreams are shattered.
We think to move on,
But scared to miss each other.
We smirk when someone scolds,
But we drink a jar of poison each time.
We die and born everyday.
We rely on each other.
We get furious.
We tease and never step back.
We listen but never act on.
For public we are mature,
But among us we are childish.
We act like ninjas among us.
And we love to stay like this...
Among us forever!
Because we are siblings.”
― Irfa Adam

“Most people are asleep and need to be confronted, like adults that are still behaving like they're 5 years old, and don't want to assume responsibility for their mistakes.”
― Robin Sacredfire

“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The problem with inner child is that if it keeps showing too often, people label you as childish.”
― Shon Mehta

“It takes maturity to admit that you are wrong, especially when you are right.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most adults are adults all over except between their ears.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Blaming is a childish act.”
― Toba Beta

“So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“An adult who is never childish, playful, is like an insane spider becoming the victim of its own web.”
― Rune Kjær Rasmussen

“Many of those who might grow up someday are already adults.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.”
― Claire Wong, The Runaway

“Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hero soon lost interest in the conversation, and left her chair to go and look out of the window into the busy street. When the Viscount at last rose to go she was employed in drawing faces on the dusty window-panes.
'If ever I saw such a troublesome chit!' exclaimed Sherry. 'Now look at your glove! What's more, I dare say Stoke don't like to have his windows looking like that.'
Mr. Stoke, watching in some amusement her ladyship's conscience-stricken scrutiny of one dirty finger-tip, said that he thought her window sketches brightened the room, and earned a grateful smile.”
― Georgette Heyer, Friday's Child

“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A man without a plan is simply an aging boy.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

“But that was the trouble with this world--at heart, it was childish.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it alone, one can make somebody so happy.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

“There were several paintings to admire, one of them very fine indeed. Many were urban, industrial landscapes. Paul was generous with his praise, though inwardly discouraged. In comparison with this his own work was immature, and he couldn't understand why. He wasn't particularly young for his age. His mother's long illness and early death had forced him to grow up and take on responsibility. So this maturity of vision in a man whom he found distinctly childish in many respects bewildered him. Living at home, spoiled, self-pitying, moaning on because his mother didn't pay him enough attention - for God's sake! The work and the man seemed to bear no relation to each other. And the contrast was all the more painful because Neville was painting the landscape of Paul's childhood.”
― Pat Barker

“How self-centered. I remember thinking that it was yet another sign that the former president was a weird emotional child who was not at all qualified for the presidency (this was, of course, before Donald Trump showed us all what ‘weird, emotional child not at all qualified for the presidency’ really looks like). But I thought of this mostly as a funny aberration.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Who wanted to grow up, when we had the heroes like batman and superman and we had this little tiny body to act with, like them. Alas, we all have that childish nature still in us, but it's all about how people would think of us.”
― Neymat Khan

“We will love each other.
We will be young.
As two dogs playing together, childish again.”
― Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne

“If we choose to make the darkness our light we must ascribe Christmas to the genre of childish myths of the most mythical sort, for that is the only way to make it dark enough for us to tolerate it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Idle, archaic, indifferent mentality. I am beginning to feel I might give all this up, as if the challenge were not worth the trouble, might give up all judgement. This state of mind has been with me from childhood, from adolescence - a lack lustre, slipshod, idle, irresponsible, uncultivated, undesiring state. These books, did they ever interest me? These women, did I ever feel any emotion for them? All these different countries, did I want to discover them? Only the inhumanity of things has affected me, and I have in fact been unable to bring this into my own life. I read this verdict in the graph of the tonality of events, of the melancholy of faces, of the vanity and futility of our undertakings. I am still astonished by the mirror we can offer to others, by the loving or ironic image which we still are sometimes in each others' mirrors.

Increasingly, it is machines, not people, who get nervous. People only become nervous if they force themselves to look like machines.

All situations where you have to make a choice come down to this: do you prefer a woman with a very ordinary body but an attractive face, or one whose body is attractive, but whose face is nothing special? The problem is a false one. It is always preferable to be in a situation where there is no choice to be made either because the woman is perfect, or because she is the only one available.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories