Birth Quote by Paul Kalanithi

“That is what you do when you have a child, isn’t it, open yourself up to unimaginable pain and then try to pretend away…

— Gin Phillips

“Some people say it is a shame. Others even imply that it would have been better if the baby had never been created. But…

— Christine O'Keeffe Lafser

“-And what would you do if you lost a child? -I would think I was going to die, Elena said. But I wouldn't. I…

— David Bergen

“Do whatever you want, but don't lose that child," she said. "There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Yeah, she said she just can't wait for you and Daddy to get to heaven."...From that moment on, the wound from one of the…

— Todd Burpo

“I strongly believe that to heal from the adoption wound we all have to grieve our losses individually and then together. I don't regret…

— Zara Phillips

“Even though everything in the past twenty-four hours had been leading to this, even though it was a fear Isabel had harboured from the…

— M L Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

“Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.”

— J.T. Lawrence

“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.”

— Mitch Albom

“Woe is the natural end of life, yet we go on having babies.”

— Gregory Maguire

“Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to, I don't believe.”

— Erica Eisdorfer

“Death, like birth, was part of the package of life. She had come to peace with that. It was those of us who were…

— Tom Ryan