Childhood Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke Download Open image ““This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up.”” — Rainer Maria Rilke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children
“Apparently, my parents were not worried about me being sick, because they did not suggest any such thing. My sickness was nothing but a… — Diana Macey Copy Share Image
“When I learned you were sick , I finally felt old for the first time. You will recover, and I never will.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“I'd spent too many years acting like a spoiled child, and it was finally time to grow up.” — Nina Lane Copy Share Image
“If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.” — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“called in sick. Ironically, the reason was food poisoning, perhaps caused by sampling one of the hospital’s entrées.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they’d… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
“His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was dieased” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Of course, we often think we have to get sick literally in order to get the rest or pleasure we need in our lives.… — Bernie S. Siegel Copy Share Image
“Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
