24 Quotes About Infant LossWords of consolation when all others feel inadequate.
Few experiences are as devastating as the loss of a baby. Much of the time, words can feel woefully inadequate for expressing the unimaginable grief of parents and families going through such a loss. But every once in a while, the right words — delivered at the right time and from the right person —…
Few experiences are as devastating as the loss of a baby. Much of the time, words can feel woefully inadequate for expressing the unimaginable grief of parents and families going through such a loss. But every once in a while, the right words — delivered at the right time and from the right person — can be a source of consolation.
These quotes about infant loss speak to the heartbreak, love, and lasting bond that can exist even when a child’s life is far too brief.
1. “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
— Often attributed to A. A. Milne
2. “A moment in our arms, a lifetime in our hearts.”
— Unknown
3. “There is no footprint too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.”
— Unknown
4. “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.”
— Unknown
5. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”
— Queen Elizabeth II
6. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
— Helen Keller
7. “For whom, The milk ungiven in the breast, When the child is gone? For whom the love locked up in the heart, That is left alone?”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
8. “You cannot heal what you refuse to feel. Working through the gut-wrenching pain of tragedy is the only path toward eventually reclaiming a life of meaning and hope.”
— Dr. Carol Kerns
9. “I will always be a woman whose first child died, and I won’t give up either that grievance or the bad jokes of everyday life. I will hold on to both forever”
— Elizabeth McCracken
10. “A story can be a gift, or it can be a life raft. Sometimes it’s the only thing that keeps you from drowning.”
— M.L. Stedman
11. “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
— Emily Dickinson
12. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
— Thomas Campbell
13. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
— Traditional Irish saying
14. “You were loved before you were born, cherished every moment you were here, and will be missed forever”
— Unknown
15. “Your tiny life brought immeasurable love.”
— Unknown
16. “Forever our baby. Forever our love.”
— Unknown
17. “There are still times when I look at the dark and wish it would swallow me up. But then I remember: the light is always there, if you choose to look for it.”
— M.L. Stedman
18. “Though your time with us was brief, your place in our hearts is eternal.”
— Unknown
19. “Too beautiful for Earth.”
— Unknown
20. “An edge of grief is sharper when it cuts through something so small.”
— Eowyn Ivey
21. “There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
22. “When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, there isn’t a word to describe them.”
— Ronald Reagan
23. “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). I am never without it.”
— E.E. Cummings
24. “He felt the loss of the baby in the house as much as I did.”
— Jackie Kennedy
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When a baby dies, words may never feel like enough, but the right ones can remind grieving parents that their love and their loss are seen. A life does not have to be long to leave a permanent place in a family’s heart.
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So true. The depth of a parent’s love is never measured by how long their child was here. A brief life can leave an immeasurable love and a loss that deserves to be acknowledged and remembered.
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