Adults Quote by Anonymous

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

— Brian Aldiss

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

— Brian Aldiss

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an…

— Cate Blanchett

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

— Gertrude Atherton

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

— Ann Radcliffe

If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with…

— Lydia M. Child

“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

“In idyllic small towns I sometimes see teenagers looking out of place in their garb of desperation, the leftover tatters and stains and slashes…

— Rebecca Solnit

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're…

— Charles Addams

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

— Lee Unkrich

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

— John Webster

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

— David Elkind