Losing A Child Quotes

“When a husband loses his wife, they call him a widower. When a wife loses her husband, they call her a widow. And when somebody’s parents die, they call them an orphan. But there is no name for a parent, a grieving mother, or a devastated father who have lost their child. Because the pain behind the loss is so immeasurable and unbearable, that it cannot be described in a single word. It just cannot be described.”
― Bhavya Kaushik, The Other Side of the Bed

“No, Captain Madsen, you don't regret having had a child simply because you lose it. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“When you lose a child, you grieve once because you have lost her, when you are barren, you grieve every day because of the child you could have had”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“When we buried my child, you told me two things that I’ve never forgotten. You said, ‘Life will be good again.’ And you said, ‘If you can survive this, you can survive anything.’ I’ve said those phrases to myself over and over.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice / The Librarian of Auschwitz / The Child of Auschwitz

“She virtually erased her mother from her life, giving herself a blank slate on which to write her life story.”
― Debi Tolbert Duggar, Riding Soul-O

“Your mo-Theresa. She's strong. Resilient," he says through the tears. "But you don't ever stop grieving for the children you've lost. And when they go, pieces of you go too, until eventually, there's nothing left.”
― Emily McIntire, Be Still My Heart