“I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.” MomentsChildhoodPainfulTortureBrushesAmusementPainful Moments Author:Aisha Tyler
“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.” LightEarthBeliefHeavenFeltCausesLossSunGenerationsTroubleAtheismChildhoodLonelinessComfortSpringEmptyOur ChildrenShiningPainfulPositive AtheismCompanionCradleSolaceDoubtedLight UpThis GenerationSun ShinesSoulless Book:The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
“The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.” IndividualRaceSacrificeChildhoodPainfulPanicAvertPlacating Author:Rebecca West
“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.” ThinkingChildrenMemoriesChildhoodFutureOur ChildrenRaisesRoseForgottenPainfulSurfaceCompare Book:Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us Source: Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us
“Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.” KnowsSometimesWould BeCertainDifficultMemoriesCasesChildhoodEmotionalDown AndPainfulUpsetNails Author:Justin Torres
“A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.” FeelsSometimesCertainEmotionAliveChildhoodResourcesWho You ArePainfulConstructsJoyous Author:Edward Hirsch
“I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.” WorldPainSpeakChildhoodSubjectsAdultsPainfulCuriousFascinatingTransitionPortraying Author:Sophie Marceau
“. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.” PeopleGrowsInterestingGrowing UpChildhoodNegativePainful Author:Barbra Streisand
“The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.” MenChildhoodYouthAgingPainfulOld ManSighBosomsGladnessLoveliness Author:Lydia M. Child