stillborn love notes provide small satisfaction

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing…

— Katherine Mansfield

“My parents’ marriage, begun with a pregnancy that produced a stillborn child, was itself stillborn—a union formed with expectation and promise that never delivered.”

— Bridgett M. Davis

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after…

— Stanley Hauerwas

So empty, just a shell of a man. Stillborn, this I understand. The feelings I once felt are now dead and gone I've waited…

— Black Label Society

“Daughter of a stillborn water buffalo!”

— Toby Neal

“There is no summit acquired like that necessitated by steep depression–the ascension of soul. Such are the natures of miracles. They are borne to…

— Dew Platt

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back…

— James Brown

“The Stillborn God is not a fairy tale. It is a book about the fragility of our world, the world created by the intellectual…

— Mark Lilla

I'm a twin, but only I emerged live from the womb. The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise…

— David Jason

“Would to God I'd been stillborn.”

— Abulcasim El Hadrami

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

— Richard Flecknoe

“I leave love notes all around the house. They’re on your pillow, in the fridge, in your sock drawer, but you don’t see them.…

— Richard Jay Goldstein

I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the…

— Oliver Hudson

“Jason Mashak’s SALTY AS A LIP is grounded in a voice patiently bridging the “steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The poems are…

— James Ragan