Quotes About Losing A Child Too Soon

If you have lost a child too soon, you know how painful and devastating it can be. It’s a loss that no parent should ever have to endure, and it’s something that stays with you forever. Here are the top 99 quotes about losing a child too soon to help you find comfort and solace during this difficult time.

1. “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.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
2. “Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A.A. Milne
3. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
4. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
5. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
6. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
7. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
8. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
9. “The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.” – Steel Magnolias
10. “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)” – E.E. Cummings
11. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
12. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
13. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
14. “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen
15. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
16. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
17. “They say that time heals all wounds, but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.” – Ezbeth Wilder
18. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” – Gilda Radner
19. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets
20. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – A.A. Milne
21. “The death of a child is a single word, a single word that has no meaning. It is the end of everything.” – Joan Didion
22. “The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.” – Eileen Elias Freeman
23. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
24. “I have a son who is my heart. A daughter who is my soul. And a love that is my life.” – Unknown
25. “There are no goodbyes. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
26. “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.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
27. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
28. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
29. “The only way to get through grief is to grieve.” – unknown
30. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
31. “The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.” – Rumi
32. “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
33. “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.” – Unknown
34. “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” – Blaise Pascal
35. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
36. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish Proverb
37. “It is said that 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 Kennedy
38. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
39. “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” – Rob Liano
40. “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
41. “When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
42. “I am not gone. I remain here beside you. Just in a different form.” – Unknown
43. “There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.” – Unknown
44. “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
45. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving
46. “We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” – Madame de Stael
47. “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown
48. “The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
49. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
50. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Kahlil Gibran
51. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
52. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
53. “Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, the angels, whispering one to another, can find among their burning tears of love, none so devotional as that of ‘Mother,’ therefore by that dear name I long have called you.” – Edgar Allan Poe
54. “The memory