Grieving Parents Quotes

10 quotes from 9 authors

Grief after loss can feel like a storm, and this set captures raw unsettling voices of parents navigating that pain. The quotes swing from stark imagery to uneasy commentary, offering a glimpse of complex emotions. For material on Grief, Parenting after loss, or bereavement coping, see Grief, Parenting, and Loss pages.

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I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

Zach Braff

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When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Simon Callow

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My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

Elizabeth Edwards

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“The moment a child leaves us, a parent’s heart feels different. Medically, this condition is called “broken heart syndrome,” but grieving parents…

Pam K. McCarty

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I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power?…

Jennifer Donnelly

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“Of the many million pairs of grieving parents, we will never know how many felt that their sons had died for something…

Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars

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“They’d crossed over to that continent where grieving parents lived. It looked the same as the rest of the world, but wasn’t.…

Louise Penny

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“CNN and The New York Times are called fake news by some people on our side, while the president personally thanks infowars.com…

Jeff Flake

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“Helen, a junior high math teacher in Minnesota, spent most of the school week teaching a difficult “new math” lesson. She could…

Joel Osteen

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“Helen, a junior high math teacher in Minnesota, spent most of the school week teaching a difficult “new math” lesson. She could…

Joel Osteen

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