Best childhood & dies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”

“When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.”

“It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.”

Want Made Hard Running Film Dies Actors Fantasy Childhood Thieves Obscure Midnight Bicycle

Author:Ben Affleck

“... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.”

Ifs Looks Dies Imagination Childhood Scientist Mirrors Artistic Prophet Fishing Cynical Veils Disillusioned Sneer

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.”

People Needs Children Hard Care Age Dies Culture Belief Childhood Periods Adults Myth Old Age Be You Drudgery

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read it in the script and I'd always be struck by what I'd just done and what we were doing, and that this was my childhood hero and I was writing his death.”

Way Writing Done Moments Dies Process Childhood Emotional Strange Hero Scripts Kirk

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”

“My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.”

Suffering Dies Childhood Defense Nuclear Holocaust Radiation Drills Hallways Lining Up

Author:Julianna Baggott

“I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.”

Thinking Ideas Hard Facts Dies Found Childhood Driven Poetry Is Get Over Unbearable Lyric Poetry

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.”

Ifs Heart Long Dies Childhood My Heart Sorrow Ironic Sorrow And Happiness Barbs

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”

“We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.”

Source: Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels

“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”

Children Age Certain Dies Childhood Birth Aging Kingdoms Breaking Dawn Childish Things

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Long Dies Lost Grows Growing Up Childhood Ill Contradiction Neglect Earning Get Well Earning Money

Author:Paulo Coelho

“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.”

Life Kids Dies Childhood Adults Fatherhood Corpses Inner Child Children Playing Unhappy Childhood

Author:Brian Aldiss

“Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.”

Body Faces Dies Known Childhood Birth Moved Longing Endless Spokes

Book:Illyria

Source: Illyria

“Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.”

Children Dies Childhood Kingdoms Breaking Dawn Childish Things

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.”

Way Want Moments Dies Childhood Ambition Adults

Book:In One Person: A Novel

Source: In One Person: A Novel

“But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die”

Humans Dies Grows Born Human Beings Forget Cities Childhood Adolescence

Author:Elif Safak

“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”

Looks Persons Stills Sometimes Eye Dies Knowing Alive Imagine Seeing Childhood Goes On Died Recognizing

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.”

Knows Dies Childhood

Author:James O'Barr

“Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.”

Knows Moments Dies Childhood Aging Crow

Author:Michael Wincott

“As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.”

Knows Believe Humans Kind Lasts Desire Dies I Believe Human Beings Forget Childhood Essentials Anxiety Understood Philosophical Seven Access Preventing

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.”

Childhood Quotes

Related topics

Childhood Quotes