Best 5 quotes in «losing a child quotes» category

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

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.

She virtually erased her mother from her life, giving herself a blank slate on which to write her life story.

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

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.