Beauty Quote by W. H. Auden

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

— Nan Fairbrother

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of…

— George Eliot

“There’s something life-giving about children, even in a time of mourning, something that helps people see beyond their immediate losses.”

— J.A. Jance

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same…

— Eugene Kennedy

“It is often said that there should be no death or grief in children's stories. It is not wise to dwell on the dark…

— Louisa May Alcott

“It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit…

— Mitch Albom

“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that is important,…

— Hermann Hesse

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity…

— Francis Bacon

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread…

— Anonymous

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor…

— Peter Matthiessen

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary…

— George Eliot