Children Quote by Henriette Mantel

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“and you without your sadness is like the ocean without water, the sky without the sun and the stars. it just doesn't make sense…

— Ashley Rose

“I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way. It is easy to sense and embrace meaning when life is on…

— Anne Lamott

I grew up thinking, 'You go to university, you get your degree, you get a job, you get married and then you have a…

— KT Tunstall

“Whichever way I went, there would be sadness and a sense of loss. Was this a part of growing up—the agony of making such…

— Anonymous

“[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

In one way, it's a relief I know I'll never have another child. I don't live with the sorrow I had when it was…

— Amanda Redman

“One of the great solaces of my life is that I no longer need to wonder whether I’ll have children.”

— Sarah Manguso

“It would seem that losing the sadness would be a good thing, but it has been replaced by nothing -a quiet acceptance of this…

— Samantha Schutz

“Without sadness, there can be no happiness, which means a state of eternal bliss really wouldn’t be that blissful. In fact, at a certain…

— Lisa Gardner