Adult Fear Quotes

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.

We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.

It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.