Children Quote by William Wordsworth

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

— Patsy Kensit

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

— Todd Burpo

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

— Walter Scott

“There’s a psychological mechanism, I’ve come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it…

— Aleksandar Hemon

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

— Markus Zusak

There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

— Kenneth Patchen

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath…

— Jim Goad

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I…

— Virginia Woolf

That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked…

— Ted Hughes

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was raised with the idea that I was born dying. That with every breath you take, you get closer to your last. It's…

— Scarface