Children Quote by Epictetus

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back.…

— Epictetus

Once you lost it you can never have it back. and if you have it again it will never be the same

— Clevelle

It is only the dead who do not return.

— Alexandre Dumas

I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with…

— Quentin Crisp

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's…

— Frances McDormand

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and…

— John Steinbeck

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

— Epictetus

In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

— Quentin Crisp

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.

— Haruki Murakami

Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But…

— Edward Hirsch