Abandoned Quote by Gertrude Atherton

The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives…

— Maria Franziska von Trapp

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

— Fernando Pessoa

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin,…

— Jonathan Tropper

Childhood lasts all through life.

— Gaston Bachelard

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

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in…

— Sue Grafton

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

— Anonymous

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread…

— Anonymous

“The loss of an only child is the worst pain anyone can endure. After all, what do our parents live for? With thee best…

— Durjoy Datta

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is…

— Victor Hugo

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

— Tove Ditlevsen

“All night I was awake with useless sympathy what use is childhood that falls to its death”

— Donald Revell