Children Quote by Anonymous

“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new…

— Pearl S. Buck

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. It's the child who's supposed to…

— Jodi Picoult

“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large…

— Anne Lamott

“There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.”

— Emma Forrest

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they became her…

— Gena Showalter

“I wondered how this misery would end. I was full of fear. I was afraid to tell others what I felt lest they would…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.”

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Once there was a certain lady . . . And she had no children, and generally no happiness either. And so first she cried…

— Mikhail Bulgakov