Children Quote by Shirley Hazzard

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real…

— Shirley Hazzard

“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.”

— Vahan Zanoyan

“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty…

— Richard Hughes

“The loss of an only child is the worst pain anyone can endure. After all, what do our parents live for? With thee best…

— Durjoy Datta

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

“Children are remarkable creatures, hurtling through savage landscapes of sudden laughter and sharp heartbreaks.”

— Lyndsay Faye

“It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist.”

— Charlaine Harris

“The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the…

— Richard Rhodes

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt,…

— Charles Dickens

“Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179 This tragedy is such an inextricable…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Children—their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must—that life is the cruel…

— Andrew Levkoff

“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the barbaric time…

— Ray Bradbury