Childhood Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image ““Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.”” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Sadness
“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“There were a few years there, lost in borderless despair, when I used to experience all the world’s sadness as my own.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It wasn't the disappearance of happiness so much as the appearance of sadness.” — Alia Yunis Copy Share Image
“A person's sadness didn't always take a form that others could see.” — Keigo Higashino Copy Share Image
“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“But know this: a child sits, weeps, and dissolves into self-pity and depression. A High Priestess takes action.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination.” — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.” — Richard Beck Copy Share Image
“And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“created that melancholy of mind which accorded but too well with the religious gloom surrounding him.” — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
