Werther.

[bohemiachiquita]

"[G]rown-ups too tumble around like children on the face of the earth, not knowing where they come from or where they are going, acting as little from true purpose, and just as ruled by biscuits and cakes and birch rods: no one really wants to believe that" (14).
--From The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by

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[snapdeus]

one time i was sitting on an airplane watching people and i noticed small comforting habits that everyone had and i thought to myself "everyone is just a child that got bigger"

[bohemiachiquita]

there's a calvin and hobbes strip within the arc concerning the burglary of their house in which calvin's parents contemplate just this very subject. they come to the same conclusion that you and werther do. i guess it must be so, if bill watterson says it.