Baby Loss Quotes

Sometimes along the journey of loss we need a little help. Okay, that’s not totally true. Yes, help sometimes but also often, daily, minute by minute support… When no one is there to encourage you directly, here are some quotes that may help.

 

 

 

“Out of these ashes, beauty will rise.”

– Steven Curtis Chapman

 

“It’s a happy life, but someone is missing.

It’s a happy life, and someone is missing.”

– Elizabeth McCracken,

An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination

 

“If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was ‘over’ it. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breath and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.”

– Elizabeth Edwards

 

“A person’s a person,

no matter how small.”

– Dr Seuss

 

“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, put me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”

– A.A. Milne (author of Winnie the Pooh)

 

“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

– W.S. Merwin

 

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– E.M. Forester

 

 

I would like to thank Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope where I found these quotes. They are a great resource for bereaved parents who have lost a child by miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss.