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Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old. — Publilius Syrus

How much neurologic suffering would you let your child endure before saying that death is preferable? — Paul Kalanithi

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. — Anouk Aimee

We die a day at a time — Bangambiki Habyarimana

No man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all, — Tom Clancy

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent. — Noorilhuda

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death. — Franz Lehar

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The dead person once had a life! This is a misery? — Lailah Gifty Akita

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan. — Robert Breault

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend. — Noorilhuda

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Birthdays;They never cease to exist, and like birthdays you will never cease to exist in my heart — Xela Ffonrims

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

Would we believe their story; if the dead should return? — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is an end to every journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb! — Munia Khan

Death, with one-eyed jack in his hand,
makes a promise to the thirteenth child. — Anne Sexton

The gods used to walk among us.
True, said death.
Why did you leave?
Ah, sweet child, it was your people who left us. — Marie Rutkoski

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

Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral — W. H. Auden

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death. — Len Cariou

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to
me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead! — V.C. Andrews

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

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

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

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

To the child, abandonment by its parents is the equivalent of death. — M. Scott Peck

I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change! — A. Louise Robertson

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

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

And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was — Janice Hardy

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

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

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow. — Danny Aiello

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States. — Bill Gates

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

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. — Fred G. Gosman

Death was kind." He drew a sharp breath. "But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child. — Mark Lawrence

Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. — Julia Child

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

Like the death of a crone in one twin bed as a child is born in the other. Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying. — Sharon Olds

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn't fear death? — Todd Burpo

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity. — Noorilhuda

No mother should lose her child. — Ann Hood

Love is the child that breathes our breath. Love is the child that scatters death. — William Blake

Exposing a young child to the realities of love and death is far less dangerous than exposing them to the lie of the happy ending. — Caitlin Doughty

He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. — Alice Sebold

That Billy was her only child was testimony to death of the romance. — Alexandra Ripley

The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown. — Rebecca McNutt

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting — Kobayashi Issa

Harry ... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents ... — J.K. Rowling

And then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death, as a child at some rare bauble. — Edgar Allan Poe

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins. — Billy Graham

for a moment infinitesimal and infinite, men, women, child, ship, and death were one. It — Poul Anderson

Don't talk about dying? You want me to talk about love. They're one and the same, child. One and the same. — Julianna Baggott

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

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child. — James Salter

A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve. — Bebe Moore Campbell

The death of my child was the death of my own heart. — Julianne MacLean

Had you crawled out from under my bed when I was a child, I would have bludgeoned you to death with my father's mace." Brishen — Grace Draven

The pure beauty of death is impossible to describe as the birth of a child, the betrayal of a lover, the moment of orgasm — Heidi Postlewait

As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered. — Elie Wiesel

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me. — Lee Child

We do not have control
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it. — Nathalie Himmelrich

Death has come to cut your throats and drink your blood! — Brom

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

Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Death, child. It's beckoning us both, my brother and I. — Ross Turner

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass? — Frank Lautenberg

Each child's story is worthy of telling. There shouldn't be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper

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

Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's. — Eimear McBride

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. — Walter Mosley

Surviving the death of a loved one ... one day at a time. — Sandra Toscano Huerta

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day. — Toni Maguire

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

Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time. — Lauren DeStefano

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

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ? — Saint Augustine

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

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room — Gustave Flaubert

She wished that when her heart was beating double, she could give one of those hearts to him and then press her ear to his chest and feel it beating. — Lauren DeStefano

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

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me? — Noorilhuda

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth? — Noorilhuda

Even in death, her mother was winning. — Noorilhuda

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her. — Paule Marshall

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

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Death is misery! The lifeless person was once full of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation ... — Elie Wiesel

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