Best sorrow & childhood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.”

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Author:Carol Anshaw

“In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.”

World Made Lost Childhood Hero Sorrow Shadow Ancient Betrayed Boyhood Lost Boys

Author:George William Russell

“Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.”

Firsts Children Joy Forever Childhood Sorrow Achievement Mirrors Paint Afterlife Foreground Misadventure

Book:Character

Source: Character

“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.”

Hell Too Much Sky Atheism Childhood Sorrow Angry Positive Atheism Ghost Satan Dread Deities Deep Sorrow Whooping Cough Colic

Author:George Eliot

“Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.”

Children Beautiful Childhood Sorrow Contemplation Retrospect Happy Times Deep Sorrow

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.”

Ability Forget Childhood Sorrow Features Enchanting

Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.”

Firsts Children Body Water Watches Wonderful Childhood Strange Keys Sorrow Discovery First Time Experience Clean Everyday Surface Familiar Piano Shock Spontaneity Primal Piano Keys

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.”

Remember Joy Childhood Listening Sorrow Clue

Author:Mason Cooley

“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.”

Years Has Beens Lost Childhood Sorrow Nostalgia Cherish

Book:Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“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

“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”

Ifs Men Giving Ends Would Be Realizing Childhood Danger Sorrow Understood Performances Dancer What If My Thoughts Unbearable Chairman Drifting Geisha Memories Of A Geisha Drifting Away

Author:Arthur Golden

“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

“Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”

Seems Space Week Childhood Strange Sorrow Summer Wings Bitter Wings To Fly

Book:Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century

Source: Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century

“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

“What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”

Giving Would Be Childhood Sorrow Performances Dancer Unbearable

Author:Arthur Golden

“I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.”

Ifs Care Age Spirit Childhood Youth Sorrow Old Age Fearful Womanhood Anticipate Old Woman

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

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