Death Child Quotes

#1. Death, child. It's beckoning us both, my brother and I.

Ross Turner

#2. Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

Fred G. Gosman

#3. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.

Nancy E. Turner

#4. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.

Karen Maitland

#5. The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

Reynolds Price

#6. Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

Frank Lautenberg

#7. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
-
The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
-
Time, the infinity
has marked them ...

Muse

#8. This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death.

William Wells Brown

#9. At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

Cesare Pavese

#10. That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I'd lost my daughter too.

Leslie A. Gordon

#11. at the end of the day the fire and blood and death weren't what disturbed her the most about that convoy attack. It was the knowledge the driver had been wrong not to run over a small child. It was not being able to deny that fact.

Matt Wallace

#12. A child's brain is like fly paper that hangs from a barn ceiling: it doesn't get to choose which memories fly away free and which memories stick to death.

Helen Peppe

#13. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Alison Bruce

#14. A mother burying her child is the only thing that could make one truly long for death - if only for the sliver of hope that she might glimpse her child again.

Emma Chase

#15. I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

C. Everett Koop

#16. Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals

Min Jin Lee

#17. There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother's womb and naked will I go into the grave.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn't be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn't being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles.

Yuri Herrera

#19. But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.

Audrey Niffenegger

#20. I always sense the future, the antithesis of everything is always before my eyes. I have never seen a child without thinking that it would grow old, nor a cradle without thinking of a grave. The sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton.

Paul Auster

#21. Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him.

William, Saroyan

#22. But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.

Rabindranath Tagore

#23. D'Avray, her father, and I had met before in Algeria. He was dying now. He left the child on his death-bed to me.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#24. Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one's life.
The first kiss, the birth of one's first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#25. Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.

Nhat Hanh

#26. Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#27. For every idea that's been done to DEATH, there's a child being BORN who hasn't read it yet. Don't kill your dragons.

J.N. Race

#28. However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or
complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't
this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will
never even be offered life in the first place?

Richard Dawkins

#29. There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Bell Hooks

#30. As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment.

Howard Dean

#31. So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.

Gerhard E Frost

#32. To the child, abandonment by its parents is the equivalent of death.

M. Scott Peck

#33. Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone.

Maud Lindsay

#34. Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

Layne Staley

#35. Harry ... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents ...

J.K. Rowling

#36. He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Noorilhuda

#37. Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

Arnaud Desjardins

#38. The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

Noorilhuda

#39. He invented stories so fantastic she had to believe. Of cours, she was only a child, still removing the dust from her first death. What else could she do? And he was already accumulating the dust of his second death. What else could he do?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#40. The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved, was gone, but I kept looking for her - long after I had left my own childhood behind. The poison was in the wound, you see. And the wound wouldn't heal.

Vladimir Nabokov

#41. Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.

Dennis Prager

#42. Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy to a dying child until the very end without withdrawing to save ourselves - those are our saints. It is not the martyrs. It is never the martyrs.

Derek Miller

#43. I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

Holly Hood

#44. A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.

Wes Fesler

#45. I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.

Anthony Liccione

#46. How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

Noorilhuda

#47. Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

Jim Butcher

#48. Being an adult, it seemed, was horrible. But being a child was awful too, and moving from one state to the other only meant you were moving closer to death, with so much and so little to talk about all at the same time, and how was that even possible?

Alison Espach

#49. CHILD: "Why does carrot cake have the best icing?" MOTHER: "Because it needs the best icing." Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember

B.J. Novak

#50. Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.

Karen Karbo

#51. When you are on the edge of death you are no longer a child. You understand things you couldn't even comprehend as an adult.

Adrienne Wilder

#52. The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

Dwight L. Moody

#53. We are samurai, Lord. Death defines us. We must become a master of dealing it to our enemies, yes, but most of all lose all fear of our own.

David Kirk

#54. The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#55. 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

#56. The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves.

Rue

#57. We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Alexander Herzen

#58. Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

Robert Winston

#59. Children believe they are immortal, death is an empty word like the name of a country they've never been to on a time-faded map. I wasn't a child anymore.

Aspen Matis

#60. Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

John Ortberg

#61. Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.

Dorothy Dunnett

#62. Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

Anthony Foxx

#63. You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be.

Betty Smith

#64. And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was

Janice Hardy

#65. The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.)

Robert J. Hutchinson

#66. No man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all,

Tom Clancy

#67. The mysteries of life and death have a profound impact on the life of a person and it is ridiculous that people believe that birth of a child is the beginning of life and death of a person is the end of life.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

#68. Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral

W. H. Auden

#69. You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

David Gemmell

#70. He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Noorilhuda

#71. As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

Sam Harris

#72. Your brother beat him almost to death, Temujin. He held him and kicked him until he cried like a child. He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.

Conn Iggulden

#73. Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

Jeanette Winterson

#74. She was too young to truly understand our loss, and she was too old to hold in my arms. Yet, I wanted nothing more than to clutch her against me as we faced the burial of her mother.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#75. (The death of his child) was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look outside of his own mind and heart for help to endure a personal grief. It was the first time in his life when he had not been sufficient for his own experience.

Elton Trueblood

#76. The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.

Anthony Kennedy

#77. Love is the child that breathes our breath. Love is the child that scatters death.

William Blake

#78. This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

Cormac McCarthy

#79. Nobody asks about Beethoven's mother's own life - a fairly miserable round of pregnancy, childbirth, and child death. Was Maria Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven put on earth only to produce her wunderkind? Might she have had gifts of her own that she never got to offer the world?

Katha Pollitt

#80. Like young fern shoots
my child's fingers curled.
I did not expect,
in the fifth month, frost.

Lian Hearn

#81. for a moment infinitesimal and infinite, men, women, child, ship, and death were one. It

Poul Anderson

#82. There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief ... is the weight of a sleeping child.

Anne Michaels

#83. My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

Chanakya

#84. Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

Publilius Syrus

#85. I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

Charles Wesley

#86. Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

William Trevor

#87. These are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death ... with the induction of the joy of a child feels when embarks a little boat.

Mary Shelley

#88. From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.

Billy Graham

#89. When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

Maggie Stiefvater

#90. Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon.
"Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Judith Merkle Riley

#91. How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn't fear death?

Todd Burpo

#92. An expression crept over Asher's face that was not unlike that of a lonely child being told that Santa had not in fact been strangled to death in an alley in New Orleans

Warren Ellis

#93. People increased their birth rate in response to high child death rates. Make them richer and healthier and they would have fewer babies, as had already happened in Europe, where prosperity had led birth rates down, not up.

Matt Ridley

#94. A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

William Wordsworth

#95. I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Noorilhuda

#96. Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the other sets sail. They exchange a bright "All's well" and pass on.

J.M. Barrie

#97. A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Russell Lynes

#98. When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

Yayoi Kusama

#99. And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.

Randall Jarrell

#100. And then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death, as a child at some rare bauble.

Edgar Allan Poe