Children Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“[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

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

— Iris Murdoch

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

— Ann Radcliffe

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

— Dave Pelzer

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

— Kate Winslet

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin,…

— Jonathan Tropper

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

— Jaime Harrison

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

— Brian Andreas