Childhood Quote by Anonymous

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in…

— Hermann Hesse

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason…

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“The fantasy bond (really bondage) is the illusion that someone is there for them, someone who loves and protects them. The fantasy bond is…

— John Bradshaw

Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible…

— Lydia Sigourney

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

— James Crumley

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

— Pablo Picasso

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.

— Colin Thompson

“ There is no stronger bond than the one that gets you through childhood. ”

— Wendy Wunder

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to…

— Thomas Pynchon

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

— Rachel Cusk

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald