“I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“In some aspects losing a child is like a wall, but instead of getting over it, you must carry the wall with… — John A. Passaro Copy Share Image
“When a husband loses his wife, they call him a widower. When a wife loses her husband, they call her a widow.… — Bhavya Kaushik Copy Share Image
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also… — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
“Yeah, she said she just can't wait for you and Daddy to get to heaven."...From that moment on, the wound from one… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever. — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“Her eyes are black as coal and filled with sadness, and I wonder what losing a child that young does to you.… — Jill Hathaway Copy Share Image
I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world.… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“If you’ve suffered an immense tragedy, a two-fisted, world-ending tragedy like losing a child, you never really get over it, in a… — Liam Pieper Copy Share Image
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
“Losing a child must be the second most painful thing ever. The most painful thing would be to lose the child, find… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
Losing a child is totally overwhelming: you have no idea how you are going to carry on, how you will look after… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
I think the important thing is you're able to function as a parent to your other children, if you're lucky enough to… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
