65 Quotes About Loss-of-a-child

How long before the parts of my body realized, independently, that something was wrong and arrived, severally, at panic? Panic is a still thing. I have felt it before: each limb nerve organ coming into extreme alert unrelated to any other, ready for action, but who knows what action, as there is no action that could help here.

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

This was how to help a family who has just lost their child. Wash the clothes, make soup. Don't ask them what they need, bring them what they need. Keep them warm. Listen to them rant, and cry, and tell their story over and over.

The way he said it spoke of an ache I recognized. I knew that no matter how similar they were, no two losses were the same, but despite his loss being from a different circumstance, I felt his sadness as my own. We sat there in silence with my hand resting in his. My bandage told its own stories while we remembered the girl who taught Randolf such a valuable lesson about the small turning into the large.

We do not have control over many thingsin life and deathbut we do have controlover the meaning we give it.

The world was selfish, unjust. How could so many undeserving people be given the opportunity to raise children they didn’t even want while so many worthy individuals didn’t get the chance?

No more I can wander into that solace,For the fossilized floor inept my hefty frame.No more I can pursue the holy grail,For the murky walls devour my spirited nonage.

I’d thought those memories would be the ones I always cherished, but as the days and years passed by, those beautiful memories became my pain.

Death is death.