Quotes About Childhood

The desire to ascend in the social scale does not make itself felt until the intellect awakens. Up to the tenth, and often up to the fifteenth year, almost every child belonging to a well-to-do family envies its proletarian schoolmates, to whom so many things are permissible which for the "respectable" are placed under taboo.

Nur einsame Kinder können ganz ihre Leidenschaft zusammenhalten: die anderen zerschwätzen ihr Gefühl in Geselligkeit, schleifen es ab in Vertraulichkeiten, sie haben von Liebe viel gehört und gelesen und wissen, daß sie ein gemeinsames Schicksal ist.

What a man has taken into his bloodstream in childhood from the air of that time stays with him.

sadece yaln?zl?k çeken çocuklar tutkular?n? bütünüyle, dagilmaksizin koruyabilirler, ötekiler, duygular?n? baÅŸkalar?yla beraberlik atmosferinde gevezeliklerle harcarlar, yakinliklarla koreltirler, aÅŸk hakk?nda çok ÅŸey okumuslardir, duymuÅŸlard?r ve aÅŸk?n ortak bir kader olduÄŸunu bilirler.

Çocuk okuma yazma bilmiyordu henüz, ama ÅŸunu öÄŸrenmiÅŸti: Yeryüzündeki her ÅŸeyden ve herkesten korkmak gerekirdi!

Denn nichts auf Erden gleicht der unbemerkten Liebe eines Kindes aus dem Dunkel, weil sie so hoffnungslos, so dienend, so unterwürfig, so laurend und leidenschaftlich ist, wie niemals die begehrende und unbewußt doch fordernde Liebe einer erwachsenen Frau.

Adults raised in a narcissistic homes cling to the fantasy that they can somehow manipulate or control their parent/family of origin system to get the recognition and approval they require (that is, to get their needs met.) They had this fantasy as children, and they maintain it as adults. The reality, though, is that they had little control over their parent system as children and have little control over it now.

Loewald suggests that infantile, oedipal love detracts from and interferes with adult love when childhood experience is repressed, too strictly separated from adult experience. Then

The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because

What we describe as a person's "character" is built up to a considerable extent from the material of sexual excitations and is composed of instincts that have been fixed since childhood, of constructions achieved by means of sublimation, and of other constructions, employed for effectively holding in check perverse impulses which have been recognized as being unutilizable. (1905

Her work suggested that the use of denial, as well as that of projection and introjection, signaled, in the adult, disturbances that were rooted in developmentally early phases of childhood.

The renunciation of the child's sexual ambitions and dyadic unity with the mother is established through the father's presence, which stands for the regulating, organizing, symbolizing functions of language itself. Lacan

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!