Children Quote by Emily Yoffe

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce.…

— John Walsh

“When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth.…

— Donald Hall

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

— Mark Haddon

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

— Marcel Pagnol

You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there's possibility. I see children coming into the world as an expression of…

— Lynne Tillman

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

— Seal

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

— William Butler Yeats

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

— Blake Lively

Extreme happiness begets tragedy

— Anonymous

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

— Joyce Maynard

The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives…

— Maria Franziska von Trapp