Unhappy Childhood Quotes

Unhappy Childhood Quote of the day

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.