Sorrowful Quotes About Losing a Child

The biggest fear of every person who has a family is losing a child. They have looked for it, cherished it, and life had to take it away from them. It's heartbreaking and extremely difficult to get over. These quotes about losing a child can help bereaved parents soothe their pain or let it out. In order to pass, pain and sorrow have to be faced with courage. The pain will pass and parents will be able to move on with their lives, but things like that leave deep wounds that will take time to heal. If you are currently going through it, be brave and keep your chin up.

Quotes About the Death of a Child

• "What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other." - Paul Harding

• "Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much." - Unknown

• "We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven." - Tryon Edwards

• "You were born a child of light's wonderful secret-- you return to the beauty you have always been." - Aberjhani

• "The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare." - Angelina Jolie

• "My baby was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood." - Buffalo Bill

• "An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby's birth. Then whispered as she closed the book too beautiful for earth." - Unknown

• "The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go." - Nicole Kidman

• "To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart." - Brian Jones

• "There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quotes About Losing a Loved One

• "The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire." - William Makepeace Thackeray

• "Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have been born than to live and fare badly. " - Aeschylus

• "Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained." - Jonathan Harnisch

• "The greatest loss is the loss of life." - Lailah Gifty Akita

• "Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying." - Oliver North

• "Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling." - Honore de Balzac

• "Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth." - Richard Hooker

• "There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world." - Unknown

• "Death is a fearful thing." - William Shakespeare

• "Death is not the worst that can happen to men." - Plato

• "Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. " - Unknown

• "A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending." - R.J. Gonzales

• "Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained." - Jonathan Harnisch

Quotes About Living After Losing a Child

• "When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder." - Henry Ward Beecher

• "As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever. " - Arthur Honegger

• "Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery." - Auliq Ice

• "At sunset the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it." - L.M. Montgomery

• "How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty." - Eric Hoffer

• "Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!" - Latoya Alston

• "Memories saturate my heart and the story of you spills from my eyes." - Grace Andren

• "Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or another." - Miguel De Cervantes

• "Any woman who'd ever lost a child knew of the hollowness that remained within the soul." - Brittainy C

• "She went to the church to sit in the cave of stone, filled with the voices of strangers. Murmurs coming through the air, bowling in the ceiling and sifting down with the speckled greens and blues, the deep dark red of the stained glass at the end of the nave. She sat in the hard wooden pew and waited for the hymns. And when the singing started, she could weep. She went to the church to open her mouth and feel her heart again, constricted, struggling, banging against her throat, the tears there in the place of words, her voice struggling out in the vast air, stopped by grief." - Sarah Blake

• "Only through the significant loss of my loved ones have I truly begun to live. When their eyes closed, mine were opened." - Angie Corbett-Kuiper

Summary

Losing a child indeed is devastating and hard to overcome. Maybe these the loss of a child quotes will help you in any way. Nevertheless, you have to be strong and patient. Time will pass, and the pain will fade. The only thing you can do is to spend time with your loved ones and receive as much support as you can. You are not alone.