Children Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The child weeps for its good and the old man for his ill.

— Vikrant Parsai

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel…

— George P. Bush

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and…

— Rudyard Kipling

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

— Charles de Montesquieu

Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone? Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own? Who will…

— Antwone Fisher

“it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they mourned their loss; they will die before their children, who will,…

— Alexandre Dumas

“We mourn for the dead, but it's a selfish act. It may be a tragedy that so many young lives are lost to us,…

— Jenny Penn

“Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a…

— Sebastian Pole

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.

— John Townsend Trowbridge

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

— H. L. Mencken

“Studies have shown that fathers of murdered children often die within a few years of the murder, often of heart failure. Really, they die…

— William Landay

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

— William Makepeace Thackeray