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50 Powerful Miscarriage Quotes
It is one of the worst things parents or a person can experience in life.
Miscarriage is never easy but hopefully, these quotes can help you push past your pain. We’ve scoured the internet, and put together this list of uplifting, sympathetic, and powerful quotes about miscarriage to help you cope.
Here’s a collection of the most powerful miscarriage quotes:
50 Powerful Miscarriage Quotes
1. “Some people say it is a shame. Others even imply that it would have been better if the baby had never been created. But the short time I had with my child is precious to me.” – Christine O’Keeffe Lafser
2. “Sometimes the smallest things, take up the most room in our heart.” – A.A. Milne
3. “You never arrived in my arms, but you will never leave my heart.” – Zoe Clark-Coates
4. “There’s a unique pain that comes from preparing a place in your heart for a child that never comes.” – David Platt
5. “Because someone we love is in heaven, we feel heaven in our home.” – Unknown
6. “Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer.” – Unknown
7. “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy”. – Eskimo Proverb
8. “A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That’s how awful the loss is.” – Unknown
9. “Today would have been my baby’s due date. But there is no baby and no birthday…And I’m the only one who still cares.” – Unknown
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10. “I’ll love for forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” – Robert Munsch
11. “Even those that never fully blossom bring beauty into the world.” – Unknown
12. “I carry your heart with me, I am never without it.” – E. E. Cummings
13. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart.” – Helen Keller
14. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to “glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild.” – C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
16. “Grief, I’ve learned, is really love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot give. The more you loved someone, the more you grieve. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes and in that part of your chest that gets an empty and hollow feeling. The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent. Grief is just love with no place to go.” – Jamie Anderson
17. “Heaven and earth may separate us today, but nothing will ever change the fact that you made me a mom.” – Unknown
18. “I miss you more then anyone knows as time goes by the emptiness grows. I laugh, I talk, I play my part but behind my smile is a broken heart.”- Unknown
19. “Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith.. it is the price of love.”- Unknown
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20. “We do not “get over” a death. We learn to carry grief and integrate the loss in our lives. In our hearts, we carry those who have died. We grieve and we love. We remember.” – Nathalie Himmelrich
21. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
22. “I don’t think most people truly understand how much is lost when a baby dies. You don’t just lose a baby, you also lose the 1 and 2 and 10 and 16-year-old she would have become. You lose Christmas mornings, loose teeth, and first days of school. You just lose it all.” – Stephanie Paige Cole
23. “A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love.” – Joanne Cacciatore
24. “A mother is never defined by the number of children you can see, but by the love that she holds in her heart.” – Franchesca Cox
25. “Grieving is like having broken ribs. On the outside, you look fine, but with every breath, it hurts.”- Unknown
26. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
27. “You didn’t stay for long, but in those precious few weeks, you changed me forever.” – Zoe Clark-Coates
28. “How very quietly you tiptoed into our world, silently, only for a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footprints have left upon our hearts.” – Unknown
29. “When you carry a life and it’s there, and then gone, a part of your soul dies. Forever.” – Casey Wiegano
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30. “Throughout my life, there were a few hard days. Days where even when I tried to be happy, my heart still cracked and Mother’s Day was one of those. For others, it stood as a celebration. For me, it spoke of loss and failure. Because there’s no such thing as an ‘almost’ Mother’s day.” – Brittany Cherry
31. “I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.” – Christine O’Keeffe Lafser
32. “I’ll love for forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” – Robert Munsch
33. “There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.” – Unknown
34. “I no longer seek those things that help me to heal but for those things that fortify me with the strength required to carry the load, fate has set upon my shoulders. Instead of finding a way to forget, find a way to bear the constant remembering. The silence of the wild being one of those elements that reinforce the weathered walls of the soul and mind.” – L.M. Browning
35. “How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson
36. “The best advice that I got during counseling: Don’t judge your spouse’s grief response. Give them the freedom to grieve their own way.” – Rachel Crawford
37. “There is a unique pain that comes from preparing a place in your heart for a child that never comes.” – David Platt
38. “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
39. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh
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40. “Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there’s been endless days of rain.” – Christina Greer
41. “What does a miscarriage feel like? It feels as if you have been short-changed by nature. You will cry for what might have been but nobody will understand because they didn’t feel it.” – Unknown
42. “Babies lost in the womb were never touched by fear. They were never cold, never hungry, never alone, and importantly always knew love.” – Zoe Clark-Coates
43. “There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve and that is different for everyone.” – Nathalie Himmelrich
44. “How very quietly you tiptoed into our world, silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footprints have left upon our hearts.” – Unknown
45. “I held you every second of your life.” – Stephanie Paige Cole
46. “Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
47. “It hurts because it matters.” – John Green
48. “Just because we lost a life, doesn’t mean we have to lose ourselves.” – Tamara Gabriel
49. “An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby’s birth. Then whispered as she closed the book ‘too beautiful for earth’.” – Unknown
50. “To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.” – Dr. Burton Grebin
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