--- title: "10 Dead baby Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 10 Dead baby quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Dead baby sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/sylvia-plath-149_baby_to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-blank-and_1860468.jpg" --- > [To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-blank-and-stopped-as-a-dead-baby-the-2/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/sylvia-plath-149_baby_to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-blank-and_1860468.jpg) > [“To the person in The Bell Jar, black and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-black-and-stopped-as-a-dead-baby-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/sylvia-plath-149_bad-dream_to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-black-and_2229875.jpg) > [Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-cooper/dead-babies-can-take-care-of-themselves-dead-babies-can-t-take-things/) [Alice Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-cooper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/alice-cooper-2435_babies_dead-babies-can-take-care-of-themselves_1691975.png) > [Abortion doesnt make you unpregnant it makes you the mother of a dead baby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/abortion-doesnt-make-you-unpregnant-it-makes-you-the-mother-of-a-dead/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ac/anonymous-1_parenting_abortion-doesnt-make-you-unpregnant-it-m_2017879.jpg) > [There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/there-are-two-victims-in-every-abortion-a-dead-baby-and-a-dead/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef5/mother-teresa-196_abortion_there-are-two-victims-in-every-abortion_711008.jpg) > [Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-halse-anderson/look-at-the-stupid-poor-people-look-at-the-stupid-poor-burned-out/) [Laurie Halse Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-halse-anderson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f6/laurie-halse-anderson-623_baby_look-at-the-stupid-poor-people-look-at-t_2193565.jpg) > [To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horst-faas/to-get-the-best-picture-of-a-captured-prisoner-you-have-to-get-him/) [Horst Faas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horst-faas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/825/horst-faas-80441_arms_to-get-the-best-picture-of-a-captured-pr_1893609.jpg) > [Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherynne-m-valente/astolaine-bombast-catalogue-woman-ordered-up-like-a-rare-steak-plees/) [Catherynne M. Valente](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherynne-m-valente/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/catherynne-m-valente-375_baby_astolaine-bombast-catalogue-woman-ordere_979095.png) > [“She sold her hair; she sold her teeth, but it was never enough. The baby became lethargic and ceased to thrive. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-worth/she-sold-her-hair-she-sold-her-teeth-but-it-was-never-enough-the-baby/) [Jennifer Worth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-worth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53b/jennifer-worth-12641_call-the-midwife_she-sold-her-hair-she-sold-her-teeth-but_1497605.jpg) > [“Lucas crept around the building to the back parking lot. And there it was, just like he had seen from the roof—a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-aertker/lucas-crept-around-the-building-to-the-back-parking-lot-and-there-it/) [Paul Aertker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-aertker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18e/paul-aertker-48638_dead-baby_lucas-crept-around-the-building-to-the-b_2352604.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dead-baby/#itemlist", "name": "Dead baby Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-blank-and-stopped-as-a-dead-baby-the-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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