Why would anyone want to read miscarriage quotes? Won’t they just deepen your painful emotions?
No, they won’t. Reading about how other people felt when they lost their pregnancy will help you connect to your buried emotions, accept them, honor them, and learn to live with them.
What does a miscarriage feel like?
I’ve heard many women describe it. While every miscarriage experience was unique, most of them felt similar emotions the moment they heard the horrible, life-wrecking news.
Everything around you disappears.
You can no longer hear or see anyone. Your heart beats faster and louder until you’re not sure you’re alive.
You don’t care. At that very moment, you wish you weren’t.
‘Are you okay?’ The doctor’s words bring you back. No, you’re not okay, you never will be again. ‘Yeah, I’ll be fine’, you respond – if you manage to utter anything.
Many people think that miscarriage isn’t as painful as stillbirth or infant loss but the truth is, carrying a child in your belly, dreaming of holding that baby in your arms, planning for their happy future with your partner, and then having your world destroyed by the fact that the baby is no longer alive is devastating.
Pregnancy loss can be incredibly difficult to deal with. Miscarriage is still the loss of a child, even if you never got to see that child outside the womb.
If I had to choose just one miscarriage quote, then I’d definitely choose this one:
“‘There is no heartbeat.’ 4 words. 4 words to end the life I had. 4 words to change who I was. It will never be the same again. I will never be the same again.” – Kerin Lee
This simple, honest quote about miscarriage paints the horror of such a painful outcome. It’s brutal how one minute you have it all and the very next your life seems destroyed.
If you’ve experienced the heartbreak of losing a pregnancy, these heartfelt miscarriage quotes will hopefully bring you some peace and comfort.
Miscarriage Quotes To Help You Get Through A Difficult Time:
1. “You didn’t stay for long, but in those precious few weeks, you changed me forever.” – Zoe Clark-Coates
2. “Any woman who’d ever lost a child knew of the hollowness that remained within the soul.” – Brittainy C. Cherry
3. “When a child is born, it is the mother’s instinct to protect the baby. When a child dies, it is the mother’s instinct to protect the memory.” – Unknown
4. “What does a miscarriage feel like? It feels as if you have been short-changed by nature. You will cry for what might have been but nobody will understand because they didn’t feel it.” – Unknown
5. “When you carry a life and it’s there, and then gone, a part of your soul dies. Forever.” – Casey Wiegano
6. “Throughout my life, there were a few hard days. Days where even when I tried to be happy, my heart still cracked and Mother’s Day was one of those. For others, it stood as a celebration. For me, it spoke of loss and failure. Because there’s no such thing as an ‘almost’ Mother’s day.” – Brittany Cherry
7. “I don’t think most people truly understand how much is lost when a baby dies. You don’t just lose a baby, you also lose the 1 and 2 and 10 and 16-year-old she would have become. You lose Christmas mornings, loose teeth, and first days of school. You just lose it all.” – Stephanie Paige Cole
8. “You never arrived in my arms, but you will never leave my heart.” – Zoe Clark-Coates
9. “I’ll love for forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” – Robert Munsch
10. “A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That’s how awful the loss is.” – Unknown
11. “A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love.” – Joanne Cacciatore
12. “Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
13. “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
14. “I no longer seek those things that help me to heal but for those things that fortify me with the strength required to carry the load fate has set upon my shoulders. Instead of finding a way to forget, find a way to bear the constant remembering. The silence of the wild being one of those elements that reinforce the weathered walls of the soul and mind.” – L.M. Browning
15. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart.” – Helen Keller
16. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. “I carry your heart with me, I am never without it.” – E. E. Cummings
18. “As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.” – Unknown
19. “There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.” – Unknown
20. “How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson
21. “A life need not be long-lived, for it to be meaningful.” – Unknown
22. “The one who left gentle footprints on our hearts left a story worth telling.” – Unknown
23. “To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.” – Dr. Burton Grebin
24. “The best advice that I got during counseling: Don’t judge your spouse’s grief response. Give them the freedom to grieve their own way.” – Rachel Crawford
25. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Unknown
26. “A life may last just for a moment, but memory can make that moment last forever.” – Unknown
27. “Even those that never fully blossom bring beauty into the world.” – Unknown
28. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
29. “If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to “glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild.” – C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
30. “The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.” — Cheryl Strayed
31. “We do not have control over many things in life and death but we do have control over the meaning we give it.” — Nathalie Himmelrich
32. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.” — Unknown
Comforting Quotes For Those Dealing With A Loss Of A Baby:
1. “And grief is not something you complete, but rather, you endure. Grief is not a task to finish. And move on, but an element of yourself – an alteration of your being.” – Gwen Flowers
2. “We do not “get over” a death. We learn to carry the grief and integrate the loss in our lives. In our hearts, we carry those who have died. We grieve and we love. We remember.” – Nathalie Himmelrich
3. “For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery or a stubborn retreat from waking reality, I do not know, but I woke only reluctantly to take a little food, falling at once back into a stupor of oblivion, as though the small, warm weight of broth in my stomach were an anchor that pulled me after it, down through the murky fathoms of sleep.” – Diana Gabaldon
4. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
5. “Grief, I’ve learned, is really love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot give. The more you loved someone, the more you grieve. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes and in that part of your chest that gets an empty and hollow feeling. The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent. Grief is just love with no place to go.” – Jamie Anderson
6. “Sometimes the small sounds of blessings are found in the hardest moments of life. Listen for the whispers…” – Maureen Watts
7. “It hurts because it matters.” – John Green
8. “Grieving is like having broken ribs. On the outside, you look fine, but with every breath, it hurts.” – Unknown
9. “Some say you are too painful to remember. I say you are too precious to forget.” – Unknown
10. “What my sister needed was not people urging her, as so many did, to get pregnant again as soon as possible, but acknowledgement of her loss and the violence that she experienced in that loss. She needed to know that this was not a failure or that she was a bad mother. She needed to be allowed to be not only sad but also, in her grief, to be angry.” – Soraya Chemaly
11. “When my wife and I lost our son, we had similar but very different experiences. She felt she was caught in a blizzard and she doesn’t remember the six months after we lost him. For me, it was like everything that I had known burnt to the ground, this field or forest that was turned to ash, burning, smoldering. How do I make sense of a world where this can happen?” – Sean Hanish
12. “An eternal memory…until we meet again: Those special memories will always bring a smile if only I could have you back for just a little while… you always meant so very much and always will do too. The fact that you’re no longer here will always cause me pain, but you’re forever in my heart until we meet again.” – Unknown
13. “I fell in love with you when you were forming in my womb, now I carry you in my heart instead of my arms.” – Unknown
14. “I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.” – Christine O’Keeffe Lafser
15. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
16. “That moment after losing your baby when you need to get out of the house but then see a mother with her newborn baby. That’s pain like nothing else.” – Unknown
17. “There is a unique pain that comes from preparing a place in your heart for a child that never comes.” – David Platt
18. “I held you every second of your life.” – Stephanie Paige Cole
19. “Heaven and earth may separate us today, but nothing will ever change the fact that you made me a mom.” – Unknown
20. “I miss you more than anyone knows as time goes by the emptiness grows. I laugh, I talk, I play my part but behind my smile is a broken heart.” – Unknown
21. “Babies lost in the womb were never touched by fear. They were never cold, never hungry, never alone, and importantly always knew love.” – Zoe Clark-Coates
22. “A mother is never defined by the number of children you can see, but by the love that she holds in her heart.” – Franchesca Cox
23. “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our heart.” – A.A. Milne
24. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh
25. “Before I carried the pain, I carried you. And in my heart, I carry you still.” – Unknown
26. “Some people say it is a shame. Others even imply that it would have been better if the baby had never been created. But the short time I had with my child is precious to me. It is painful to me, but I still wouldn’t wish it away. I prayed that God would bless us with a baby. Each child is a gift, and I am proud that we cooperated with God in the creation of a new soul for all eternity. Although not with me, my baby lives. ” –Christine O’Keeffe Lafser
27. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day…unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.” – Unknown
28. “In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams…that is where you and I shall meet.” – Alice Through the Looking Glass
29. “When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
30. “We were going to have a baby, but we had an angel instead.” — Unknown
31. “It’s amazing how much people hide it. They feel like, ‘What did I do wrong?’ But in so many cases you didn’t do anything wrong at all.” — Giuliana Rancic
32. “Those we have held in our arms for a short while, we hold in our hearts forever.” — Unknown
33. “As you danced in the light with joy, love lifted you. As you brushed against this world so gently, you lifted us.” — TC Ring
34. “Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there’s been endless days of rain.” — Christina Greer
35. “In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it and there are some days when it is heavier than others. Some days, I hardly know it is there, distracted as I am by present joys and excitement; while other days, the burden is cripplingly-heavy and I can hardly breathe under the weight of grief.” — L.M. Browning
36. “I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye, was the trouble. I wanted to kiss you goodnight, and there’s a lot of difference.” — Ernest Hemingway
Inspirational Quotes On Miscarriage And The Acceptance Of Grief:
1. “Perhaps they are not the stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Unknown
2. “Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.” – Matthew 5:4
3. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – Winnie the Pooh
4. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
5. “It is perfectly okay to admit you’re not okay.” – Unknown
6. “There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains.” – Unknown
7. “Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.” – Unknown
8. “My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love.” – Unknown
9. “Keep your head up. God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers…” – Unknown
10. “And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope.” – Unknown
11. “When it is darkest, we can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn’t mean letting go.” – Mary VanHaute
13. “Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don’t deny it, don’t be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever.” – Rabbi Harold Kushner
14. “This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy.” – Nicholas Sparks
15. “Don’t count what you lost but instead cherish what you have and plan what you want to gain, for the past never returns but the future may fulfill the loss.” – Unknown
16. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
17. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
18. “There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve and that is different for everyone.” – Nathalie Himmelrich
19. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
20. ” Listen for my footfall in your heart. I am not gone but merely walk within you.” — Nicholas Evans
21. “I guess love just wasn’t enough for us to survive. I swear, I swear, I swear I tried. You took the life right out of me. I’m so unlucky I can’t breathe. You took the life right out of me. I’m longing for your heartbeat, heartbeat.” — Beyoncé
22. “I’m broken. We’re all broken and right now we’re all isolated within that brokenness. The cure for the loneliness is connection — connection with that broken part of ourselves and with each other — and we can’t achieve that connection while pretending we are okay. We’re not okay.” — L.M. Browning
23. “Maybe learning to live with the question marks, recognizing that closure does not always occur, is all I really needed to do. I hadn’t expected, coming from a world that fights to see life’s beginnings in black and white, to be so comforted by a shade of gray.” — Peggy Orenstein
24. “At sunset the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it.” — L.M. Montgomery
25. “Just because we lost a life, doesn’t mean we have to lose ourselves.” — Tamara Gabriel
26. “…hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I had hoped. Hope is placing the beautifully vulnerable parts of ourselves, our raw selves, into His hands. I believe hope moves His heart; but hope also moves our hearts into His hands. Hope builds trust.” — Natalie Brenner
27. “But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen.” — Ariel Levy
28. “In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night . . . You—only you—will have stars that can laugh!” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
29. “We can’t deny our journey. We can’t pretend we’re fine when we’re not. All we can do is own it—own our suffering.” – L.M. Browning
Final thoughts for moms who are fighting their pain…
Finding the right words to support people in difficult situations like having a sick child, miscarriage, or infant loss can be hard.
I hope these miscarriage quotes helped you dig deeper into your own soul.
Accept what you’re feeling. You have every right to feel broken after losing your pregnancy and no one gets to tell you otherwise.
Still, help yourself move on and remember that even though the memory will remain and there’ll always be a part of your heart dedicated to the child you’ve lost, you’re carrying a whole lot of love for your other children and the precious rainbow baby you’ll have if you decide to try again.
Smile in the name of that love. Living your best life is the best way to keep the memory of that part of you that’ll forever be missing alive within you.
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