Childhood Quote by C.J. Sansom

Children: a torment and nothing more.

— Leo Tolstoy

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

— Thomas Otway

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing…

— Joyce Cary

There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human…

— Josette Sheeran

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

— Mathias Malzieu

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

— Richard Bentall

“Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh.  A tormented writer?  I personally wouldn't have put those two words together.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

— Shirley Hazzard

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

— Nan Fairbrother

“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl of five…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.

— Anonymous

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us,…

— Albert Camus