Childhood Quote by Stefan Zweig

“He could not pass by children without his soul being shaken: such is the man.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Childhood slips away when death settles in.”

— Sahar Delijani

“The past lives in us, and blood is blood. We cannot escape, though we may wish to.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”

— Homer

“I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“... in his chest, his heart seeped. It wasn't blood that escaped - that had been shed long ago - but a thick, bile-like…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Perhaps it was something like this that changed the captive children forever; the violence they had endured when they were captured, their parents killed.…

— Paulette Jiles

“He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on…

— Helen Hodgman

“I had a brief glimpse of a frail, mature man carrying a ravaged child in his arms...”

— Muriel Barbery

“I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.”

— Imre Kertész

“My children's life over mine any day, I'd give my last drop of blood for them.”

— Jessica Zayas

“The smell of blood remains for generations.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann