Loss Of A Child Quotes

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.”
― Rob Liano

“I find,' he says, his voice still muffled, 'that I am constantly wondering where he is. Where he has gone. It is like a wheel ceaselessly turning at the back of my mind. Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can't have just vanished. He must be somewhere. All I have to do is find him. I look for him everywhere, in every street, in every crowd, in every audience. That's what I am doing, when I look out at them all: I try to find him, or a version of him.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
― Latoya Alston

“Any woman who’d ever lost a child knew of the hollowness that remained within the soul.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Disgrace

“Memories saturate my heart and
 the story of you spills from my eyes.

         ­­—Grace Andren”
― Grace Andren, Speaking In Tears: The Poetry In Grief

“We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at it? Like, you've been in a maiming car accident and then you're supposed to want to get back in the car? I mean, what?”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Lives should be measured in intensity.
Remember mine
For its glory-stretch of furious light
and wondrous beauty.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“The world was selfish, unjust. How could so many undeserving people be given the opportunity to raise children they didn’t even want while so many worthy individuals didn’t get the chance?”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Disgrace

“If we’ve been born once already (which we know we have) why then is it so hard for some to believe that we’ve been born before? The answer to that is nothing other than the information about life one has previously received.”
― Renee Chae, This Thing Called Life: Living Your Ultimate Truth

“Who could blame her for wanting the baby to be alive? His Irene still cried sometimes about young Billy, and it had been twenty years since he’d drowned as a tot. They’d had five more kids since then, but it was never far away, the sadness.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“You meet grief without introductions”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“It is amazing how much the human spirit can stand of loss and panic. What gives us the courage to go on?”
― Bernice Dietrich, Lady Slippers

“Aku tak ingin menjadi orangtua yang hebat seperti Bapak. Aku hanya ingin menjadi orangtua yang memiliki anak. Cukup sampai situ. Sudah.”
― Valerie Patkar, Serangkai

“Griever, to cry is expected; to laugh is divine”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“Don’t think. Sweep away the words, ideas, images swirling endlessly in the infernal dance of pitiless affliction. Push back the realization of an unspeakable truth for another second. Don’t speak. Don’t move. Hold on to the illusion of purpose for a few seconds. And when those seconds are over, start again, an infinite loop.”
― Barbara Abel, Mothers' Instinct

“No one is emotionally prepared to have their child predecease them. No one should ever have to experience it.”
― David Putnam, The Ruthless”
― David Putnam

“Grief is best done with a vivid imagination”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“Grief is a courtship with death”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“Grief is the deepest, swiftest river you will drown in”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“In grief, you will be invited to hold hands with death”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“You can not hang up on grief”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“Reach into your sorrow, take hold of grief and dance”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“Loss isn't singular”
― Jane Edberg, The Fine Art of Grieving

“You only have lost a deceased person. A deceased person has lost everything.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“When Nyamakeem looked into Sulafa’s anguished face that afternoon, she saw herself. She felt her own heart breaking at the loss of the child, the son of the man who had killed her son. She looked at Sulafa and felt the fire in her heart die.”
― Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

“You can give your child anything.
You can give him his life, even, but not yours.
And you can't give him his life back, once lost.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

“She was told more than once that the loss of a child, being left behind by the person who was supposed to support you in your old age and bury you when you were dead, was nothing like the loss of a sibling or parent.”
― Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

“But Crispin had had three souls in Jad's creation to live with and love, and all three were gone. Was the knowledge of other losses to assuage his own? Sometimes, half asleep at night in the house, a wine flask empty by his bed, he would lie in the dark and think he heard breathing, a voice, one of the girls crying aloud in her dreams in the next room.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium