Best 5 quotes in «losing a child quotes» category

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.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

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

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

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.