“But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.”
Louise Bogan
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.”
Brian W. Aldiss
“I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.”
Benny Goodman
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
Dr. Seuss
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.”
Brian Aldiss
“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.”
George Eliot
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
