Child Quote by Chris Cleave

“[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in…

— Nancy E. Turner

“Because the thought that we weren’t happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults”

— Jo Nesbø

“Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.”

— Heather Lende

“Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.”

— Ashley Ormon

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

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”

— Hermann Broch

“You can only be as happy as your saddest child.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.”

— Catherine Lacey

“Depressives cannot surrender childhood--not even the pains of childhood.”

— Saul Bellow Herzog

“Ah, how helpless we children are, how dependent on the whims of adults.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.”

— Bruce D. Perry

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

— Emma Forrest