Childhood Quote by Jonah Lehrer

“My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“my childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.”

— Igor Stravinsky

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and that the…

— Lev Grossman

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.... He opened his eyes a moment and they were…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional…

— Richard Wright

“Everything was to be experienced at the highest pitch of passion and life. To expect something greater after life was to forget that life…

— Nina George

“From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed…

— Edvard Munch

“The feeling he had had all his young life - that he was brought on this earth for something special - had not left…

— Paullina Simons

“I've been through hell in this life, yet risen up and survived. I felt pity after heard that boy's preaching about motivation.”

— Toba Beta

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky