Childless Quotes

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.”
― Roseanne Barr

“Overpopulation is by far the worst kind of pollution.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is impossible to bring a child into this world for its own sake.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In countless cases, parenthood has been the worst attempt to contribute something positive to the world.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Refusing to have a child is the highest degree of rebellion, after suicide; one of the best uses of the mind; and the best gift to the planet.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.”
― Monica Ali, Untold Story

“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Parents want the best for their children … for themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people became parents mainly or only to hide the fact that they are sexually attracted only to people of the same sex.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Menstruation annoys the most females who lack the desire to someday fall pregnant.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I lay on my back, feeling as if more than the womb had been taken out.”
― Gayl Jones, Corregidora

“I wanted to take a photo of his face just then. That boyish grin. That look of love, of contentedness. Couldn't he see? We didn't need children to complete us. We were already complete. I had my flowers and plants, and he had his writing. Wasn't that enough? Didn't he love the ebb and flow of our life together just as it was? The way I'd race home for dinner with a basket brimming with vegetables from the market or a handful of herbs from a garden project, eager to read the pages he'd written that day. Didn't he love, as I did, the quiet mornings we spent in our garden, sipping espresso and discussing our latest venture to a flea market in Queens or an antiques shop in Connecticut? Once we carted an enormous painted dresser to a taping of 'Antiques Roadshow' only to find that the piece was made in China. I grinned at the memory.”
― Sarah Jio, The Last Camellia

“Being a person is not nearly as overrated as having played a part in the initiation of the process that has led to the being of a person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many of us are failed secret attempts to keep our parents together.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The judge took into account “the profound despair of a woman unable to give life…” As if a man couldn’t be as deeply affected by the lack of a child, too.”
― Zidrou, The Adoption

“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Bleak pushed the chair around a corner so the light of the dying sun stained their faces a healthy red, and added, "Look, life gives us everything. Then it takes it away. Youth, love, happiness, friends. Darkness gets it all in the end. We didn't have enough sense to know you can will it-life-to others. Your looks, your youth. Pass it on. Give it away. It's lent to us for only a while. Use it, let go without crying. It's a very fancy relay race, heading God knows where. Except now, in your last lap of the race, you find no one waiting for you on the track ahead. Nobody for you to hand the stick to.”
― Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer

“If you like your evening plans you aren't allowed to regret what led you to them.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Is there anyone dearer than the children of people you love, especially when you don’t have your own?”
― Lisa Unger, Under My Skin

“Christmas was always the worst… What’s the point of Christmas without any kids to share it with?”
― Zidrou, The Adoption

“Many of those who society has pushed into pretending to like children do not even like people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Choisir sereinement de laisser la vie décider.”
― Isabelle TILMANT, Une Vie sans Enfant. Un Bonheur est Possible

“I hope there is less stigma and judgment against working moms and childless career women. All should be acceptable positions and society should not judge.”
― Chan Heng Chee

“Some children are each loved by their stepparent, but not by their biological parent … or parents.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Please God, let me be a mother.” The world stopped. I ceased to exist as a woman with a prayer. I became the prayer, the smoke, the fire, the air, the sound.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery