Children Quote by Andrew Taylor

“But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.”

— Bernice McFadden

“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than one philosopher…

— Steven Erikson

“...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.”

— Rosamund Lupton

“There’s something life-giving about children, even in a time of mourning, something that helps people see beyond their immediate losses.”

— J.A. Jance

“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required…

— Joan Didion

“Everyone who dies was once a child; every child once had a dream of something else; every child must die. It is important to…

— Claire North

“I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help…

— Keith Donohue

“All grief would slip away and all questions would be remembered as the uncomprehending wails of a newborn who did not grasp the meaning…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“I saw a bunch of kids who needed love and acceptance and to be allowed to live as normal children, instead of having to…

— Dwight E. Abbott

“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence…

— Graham Greene

“Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed But all the past still yet to come…”

— Anonymous

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

— Nan Fairbrother