Miscarriage Quotes

No matter what stage of pregnancy, a miscarriage can be devastating. Everyone anticipates the arrival of a sweet little bundle of joy, and they all grieve when that child doesn’t come to term—not just the expecting parents. Hearts break, but life goes on. Looking for ways to cope, many will search out healing quotes from those who know similar heartaches—to help memorialize their loss.

Quotes Regarding Miscarriage and Loss:

• • “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A.A. Milne
  • “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
  • “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart.” – Helen Keller
  • “I held you every second of your life.” – Stephanie Paige Cole
  • “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it.” – e.e. cummings
  • “We can’t know why the lily has so brief a time to bloom in the warmth of sunlight’s kiss upon its face before it folds into its fragrance and bids the world good night to rest its beauty in a gentler place. But we can know that nothing that is loved is ever lost and no one who has touched a heart can really pass away because some beauty lingers on in each memory of which they’ve been a part.” – Ellen Brenneman
  • ‎”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’s never gone…” – Rose Kennedy
  • “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
  • “In the English language, there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.” – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
  • “Out of these ashes, beauty will rise.” – Steven Curtis Chapman
  • “A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven’t. Most don’t mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn’t happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she’ll know.” – Barbara Kingsolver
  • “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
  • “And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me. Shine until tomorrow, let it be.” – The Beatles
  • “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” – Robert N. Munsch

“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.” – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief