Thomas de Quincey Quotes:
Ocupation: Essayist
Life: August 15, 1785 - December 8, 1859
Birthday: August 15
Death: December 8
Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
source: Thomas De Quincey, Grevel Lindop (1998). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks
topic: Children, Hate, Grief, Human Eyes
