Corey Haim Quotes

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

My childhood was so traumatic.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you'll just pass it on to your kid.

I played lots of bullies when I was a kid.

I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.

I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

I know it's fashionable to blame your childhood for everything nowadays - thank you, Freud. The thing is, though, I really don't feel scarred by mine. But perhaps if I'd been in therapy for 10 years, and you were able to read the records, you'd disagree.

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.