Childhood Quote by Sebastian Barry

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

— Ruthanna Emrys

“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we…

— Irène Némirovsky

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin

“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

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

“As I started my personal voyage to unpack the childhood that I repressed for so long, everything unexpectedly made sense as to where some…

— Patricia Dsouza

“We were stuck between the blissful ignorance of childhood and the cold, hard truth of adulthood. The”

— Carina Adams

“A return to Childhood will rid the Evils of Adulthood”

— Jason Duncan

“There are social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty...and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying…

— Claire Messud