Early morning Quote by Siegfried Sassoon

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive…

— Anonymous

“In so doing, we regain the innocent perspective most of us knew as children. Our hearts open up to others, like flowers blossoming. We…

— Yongey Mingyur

So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“I cannot imagine that there could be someone whose childhood could compare to mine. The sky and the earth belonged to me, literally, even…

— Emil Cioran

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose…

— Simon Newcomb

Without mindful awareness, the shadows of your past may haunt your present.

— Reuben Lowe

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

— Shan Sa

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor…

— Peter Matthiessen

“I work and think all day; and when night comes early dour gloom settles down on my soul…at such hours I am bankrupt in…

— L M Montgomery

“Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our once-familiar circumstance…

— Bryant A. Loney