Childhood Quote by Irène Némirovsky

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

“[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in…

— Nancy E. Turner

“there is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Surely one’s childhood concerns must be hard to encounter decades later, regardless of the life fallen between.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

“Our children forever changed our relationships with our mothers. Pity replaced the mild contempt with which we had previously regarded them, and we loved…

— Anthony Marra

“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

“And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of…

— Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

“It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of…

— L.R.Knost

“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow…

— Osho

“He feels sorry for young people; their world is very much rougher than his had been. He is already at the age where he…

— T.K. Lamb

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

“One of the most painful moments in a person’s life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when there is…

— Fredrik Backman