Children Quote by Douglas Adams

“At that moment not a single sad thought entered my mind; I forgot my privation and felt soothed by the sight of the harbour,…

— Knut Hamsun

“The light of compassion shined so steadily from within them that others could clearly see all the choices they were making, so they no…

— Julie A. Barnes

“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave…

— Cristina García

“For the sake of a few lines one must see many cities, men and things. One must know the animals, one must feel how…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of…

— Sylvia Plath

“Then there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to…

— Virginia Woolf

“Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own breathing and…

— Tom North

“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Despite experiencing the horrors of war, despite the suffering of displacement, despite the pains and traumas of crossing the sea in old boats, despite…

— Patrick Kingsley

“The sea stretched to the edge of the sky, overwhelming, and liberating, and soothing all at once.”

— Christie Anderson

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding, or remorse...…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte