Childhood Sadness Quotes

#1. At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued

Brene Brown

#2. I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Susie Bright

#3. When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think ... I think I know what childhood's for. It's to give us a bank of happy memories against future suffering. So when sadness comes, at least you can remember what it was to be happy.

John Logan

#4. We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.

Pete Townshend

#5. Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

Victoria Beckham

#7. No child should ever be too sad to play.

Andrew Galasetti

#8. Will still produce considerable overlook and shadowing on adjoining streets.

Greg Nickels

#9. I've learned that just because Noah doesn't take everything seriously doesn't mean he doesn't take anything seriously. His priorities and strategies are different from mine, not necessarily better or worse.

Kendall Ryan

#10. I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympathy, in its tuneless spark, it bypassed poetry and entered science.

Lorrie Moore

#11. One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

Maud Hart Lovelace

#12. Convinced I was unwanted, the sadness of my childhood escalated into the rebellion of my youth. My sour disposition, and what I perceived as my mother's blatant disinterest in my life, left me floundering.

Suzanne Handler

#13. Honour looked so much like a child herself, confined to bed, a white nightgown, like one of those maudlin Victorian dolls. Her cheeks were red, like someone had painted them, but I knew it was from rubbing, wiping away her melancholy.

Ruth Ahmed

#14. Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.

Shaun Hick

#15. We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.

Pete Townshend

#16. There is a small difference between being sad and grieving about something. When we want something and we don't get it, we get upset or sad. But if this continues and keeps on repeating, our sadness accumulates in our hearts and turns into a grief

Tushar Upreti

#17. Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust.

Otessa Moshfegh

#18. He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."
- Frank Balenger

David Morrell

#19. Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.

Marcel Proust

#20. I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

Gloria Estefan

#21. All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

Lewis Carroll

#22. So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.

Augusten Burroughs

#23. If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Astrid Lindgren

#24. We had not only lost our childhood in the war but our lives had been tainted by the same experiences that still caused us great pain and sadness.

Ishmael Beah

#25. Why is it...that the good things that pop up almost always get clobbered by these miserable darn things that seem to choke out everything like stinkweed?

A. E. Hotchner

#26. The nefarious frost that slithers around my spine brings forth concern that Donovan is regressing and needs to be put back on the funny farm, yet my heart longs to surrender in harmony with his madness. Without him, I will never be complete.

Diane Rinella

#27. All things happen in perfect order.

Mel Wayne