Quotes About Lost Childhood

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

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

David Elkind

#3. Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality ... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

Rajneesh

#4. He also discovered that when he touched certain parts of the brain, he triggered long-lost childhood memories or dreamlike scenes - which implied that higher mental activities were also mapped in the brain.

Norman Doidge

#5. Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and doubled over like a katana being forged until finally it was sharper than the truth.

Junot Diaz

#6. I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Emily Ratajkowski

#7. He had always tried to treat Havaa as a child and she always went along with it, as though childhood and innocence were fantastical creatures that had died long ago, resurrected only in games of make believe.

Anthony Marra

#8. I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of my life. But then I began playing volleyball in school. That did it. I lost all my baby fat and became slim.

Shilpa Shetty

#9. When I was a child, I used to look at the sky and wonder how were stars fixed on the canopy and why didn't they fall on Earth. I also wondered why they disappeared in day time. When I grew up, all my questions got answered, but I lost my innocence.

Tarif Naaz

#10. Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

Ann Hood

#11. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Anita Diamant

#12. Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.

Julian Barnes

#13. No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

Peter Ackroyd

#14. Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

Malala Yousafzai

#15. In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

George William Russell

#16. Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.

Denis Johnson

#17. ...and thinking how the first scent of autumn is like coming across a lost album of childhood photographs.

Jonathan Hull

#18. You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.

Alexa Vega

#19. I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood ...

Yves Klein

#20. Travel backward to a lost land heard of in childhood; find it to be incomprehensible, rich, strange; then discover it is the place from which you set out.

John Crowley

#21. Ricky tasted something he hadn't experienced since childhood: the panic of losing the hand of a guardian. In this case the lost parent was his sanity. Somewhere

Clive Barker

#22. You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same.

Heraclitus Of Ephesus

#23. The damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone, since we cannot change anything in our past. we can repair ourselves and gain our lost integrity by choosing to look more honestly at the knowledge that is stored inside our bodies and bringing that knowledge closer to our awareness.

Alice Miller

#24. I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

Fernando Pessoa

#25. I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

Laurie Anderson

#26. Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Andre Maurois

#27. One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

Danielle De Niese

#28. Every age had its losses, they said, even youth, which lost first childhood, then youth too. And all first things were vivid, including losses. "Just keep learning," the old woman said.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#29. When I look back on my childhood, my earliest memories seem like artifacts from a long-lost civilization: half-understood fragments behind museum glass.

Matthew Flaming

#30. If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

Catherynne M Valente

#31. The finality of her leaving allowed me to reclaim the places that had once been ours as mine, to say good-bye to my childhood parks and hiking trails rather than grasping for lost moments with a lost girl who refused to be found.

Robyn Schneider

#32. Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]
It's me
And who is the poet writing this poem?
That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

Pierre Albert-Birot

#33. Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

Graham Greene

#34. Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

Michael Jackson

#35. My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Louise Bourgeois

#36. If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two, three years old, how to look for the way, the signs of the path, the landmarks, then it gets lost in the mountain, doesn't it? And dies in the night, in the cold.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#37. Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.

Adrian Peterson

#38. Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

Doug Henning

#39. I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.

William Gibson

#40. She had never lost that childhood pleasure in seeing pages covered in her own handwriting.

Ian McEwan

#41. When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

Paul Theroux

#42. Having been raised in a multiethnic and multifaith united India, he lost many of his childhood friends. Those who now belonged to the "wrong" faith were forced to immigrate to India; others left for England.

Maajid Nawaz

#43. I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

Jack Nicholson

#44. There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

John Marsden

#45. I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Emmanuel Jal

#46. I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay.
I can make it okay, myself.
Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.
She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself.
And that would have to do.

L.J.Smith

#47. You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful ... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Mary Lou Retton

#48. What I have in ample supply here is children who've lost their childhood. But the tragedy is that these are the lucky ones.

Khaled Hosseini

#49. For most of my childhood and adult life, I thought I had the answers and most of the world was just lost. As I've grown, I've learned that I know almost nothing. And so, in that I feel reborn in a sense.

Leah Remini

#50. When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#51. We begin as children imagining and fearing ghosts. By degrees, through our long lives, we come to be the very ghosts inhabiting the lost landscapes of our childhood.

Joyce Carol Oates

#52. It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.

William Faulkner

#53. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.' Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.

Matt Haig

#54. I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Dennis Potter

#55. 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

#56. I think of New York City lost in stars
forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love
Tonight the night is full;

Gregory Corso

#57. That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

Sigmund Freud

#58. Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

Whitley Strieber

#59. We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.

Sydney J. Harris

#60. Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

Shannon Hale

#61. The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Joe Hill

#62. His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

Heather O'Neill

#63. E lost his childhood but in return got worthy wealth, the wisdom ... !

M.H. Rakib

#64. The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

Garry Kasparov

#65. He who has forgotten his childhood and lost sympathy with the children is not a man who can teach them or help them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#66. Superman, spider man, batman, all lost their parents in their childhood, they all had to live their lives against the conspiracy of villains, and even after these miseries they don't hesitate to save people or to forgive the villains, that's why they are superheroes.

Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

#67. There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.

James P. Blaylock

#68. It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.

Dan Groat

#69. I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me 'diffident') and Braefield had added a special timidity, but when I had a natural wonder... I lost all my diffidence, and freely approached others, all my fear forgotten.

Oliver Sacks

#70. The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

Milan Kundera

#71. Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

Neil Gaiman

#72. The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.

Edward Hirsch

#73. For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Rebecca Solnit

#74. I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

Gabriela Mistral