Children Quote by John Williams

“I’ve read that the dying often wait to be by themselves. They need the freedom to go, with nobody holding them back.”

— Linda Barrett

“People were always providing in death what they would not do in life, it seemed.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

“Living was hard enough. Dying was a supreme task.”

— John Fante

“And so in that moment he completes the process of growing up. And begins the process of dying. Which is much the same thing.”

— Frederik Pohl

“There's extra suffering when someone you love dies by their own hand. The ones left breathing got to find their own way to survive…

— Sandi Morgan Denkers

“But children die how they have been living-with hope. They don't what is happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold…

— Téa Obreht

“You thought of dying as a value. Young people these days appreciate being alive.”

— Maziar Bahari

“...for he had learned from others of their kind that death seemed to bring small comfort from the worrisome sphere of life…”

— Neal Barrett Jr

“...to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of dying?”

— Richard Adams

“This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life’s painful commotion.”

— Édouard Levé

“The fortunate ones die with their loved ones around them.”

— Amish Tripathi

“Dying, he has that look dying people get in their eyes sometimes, happy and sad, tired and spiritually blessed, all at the same time.”

— Daniel Wallace