Childhood Quote by Witold Gombrowicz

“What degradation lay in being young.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.”

— James Garbarino

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

— Ruthanna Emrys

“It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world; how they are destroyed.”

— Bryant McGill

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

“Childhood slips away when death settles in.”

— Sahar Delijani

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable.”

— Ginny L. Yttrup

“Then it wouldn't be long before they all found themselves shocked and sad to be fully grown into their thicker, finalized adult selves with…

— Meg Wolitzer

“It's time we allow our youth to de tangle life with ease.”

— Judy Specht

“The only promise of childhood is that it will end.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry