Child Quote by John Webster

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Children crying, cast out and neglected, only in a world so cold, only in a world.

— Mudvayne

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

— Brian Aldiss

“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into…

— Yoko Ogawa

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread…

— Anonymous

“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents, and complete…

— Katherine Dunn

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than one philosopher…

— Steven Erikson

“[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

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

— Anonymous

Children: a torment and nothing more.

— Leo Tolstoy

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof…

— George Eliot