Aloof Quote by George Eliot

“It is a strange thing how quickly our bodies die. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“We need individual stories. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, ‘casualties may rise to a million’. With…

— Neil Gaiman

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

When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace…

— Adolf Hitler

We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be…

— William George Jordan

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“And all those boys of Europe born in those times, and thereabouts those times, Russian, French, Belgian, Serbian, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Prussian,…

— Sebastian Barry

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity…

— Francis Bacon

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We need kids to remind us of how incredible this world is. People are increasingly losing their childhoods too soon, and that's a danger.…

— Cat Stevens

“It is a strange fact that many people are always at home to the “blues.” Whenever a fit visits them, it seems to be…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The unvisited grannies, in stone houses by the wheat field, can't remember their husbands or children. They worry their hands, though, hands that could…

— Gregory Maguire