Causes Quote by Louise Glück

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

— Thomas de Quincey

This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This…

— Hal Porter

Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel…

— Selma Lagerlöf

“Her eyes are black as coal and filled with sadness, and I wonder what losing a child that young does to you. I'm reminded…

— Jill Hathaway

“I remember at that time I went to the hairdresser's. I did this regularly, but I remember that visit for two particular reasons. The…

— Anita Brookner

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

— Mark Haddon

An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy…

— Noel Coward

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

— Julius Charles Hare

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to rest; I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it…

— James Russell Lowell

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

— Frederick Lenz