Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.