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It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

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

Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.