Childhood Quote by Anonymous

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of…

— John Berger

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the…

— Melanie Klein

“Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while in no…

— Peter R Breggin

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

— George Eliot

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

— James Hillman

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that…

— Lillian Hellman

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of…

— George Eliot

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through…

— Graham Greene

“There is nothing redemptive about the loss of a child, no lessons of value it can teach you. It is too big, too overwhelming,…

— Jojo Moyes

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend…

— Sharon Kay Penman

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

— Anonymous

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

— Alice Miller