Death Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

“Parenthood is the magnanimity of the soul, not the mere outcome of a biological process. (Dr Abin. From TATTERED LOTUS)”

— Dr. Abin

“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong disappearance of…

— Anna Quindlen

“When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“All mothers breed dead children. They shall, perhaps, live later. When no longer dead, they are born Not—by coincidence, by choice.”

— Mie Hansson

“She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an…

— Tor Udall

“...tried to be faultless as a parent, but still she worries that in the end, all her love for her daughter will not compensate…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“Come on now,” Arankadash says, “I’m halfway through my pregnancy and you don’t see me whining about it.” “I thought there weren’t any child-bearers…

— Kameron Hurley

“Each woman must realize that she is the final guardian of her unborn child.”

— Susan McCutcheon

“Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by…

— Brett Kiellerop-Morris

“I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to read. To have a…

— Janet Louise Stephenson

“...a child roaming the night who missed the death before birth as certain outcasts do the dear lulling blankness of the community...”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Parenthood is shit, snot, slime, fear, tears, spit, and spills. It’s as intense as combat, which is to say hours of tedium relieved by…

— Scott Simon