Miscarriage is a topic that is often avoided, but it is important to talk about. Miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy before 20 weeks gestation. It is estimated that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in a miscarriage. This means that many people have gone through or will go through this experience. If you are experiencing a miscarriage, know that you are not alone. There are many people who understand what you are going through and who want to support you. In this blog post, we will share 150 quotes about miscarriage to help you find strength during this difficult time.
Sometimes a quote can offer more comfort than words of encouragement from another person. Words have the power to express feelings that are difficult for us to put into our own words. These quotes about miscarriage can provide hope, strength, and understanding during this time.
Miscarriage Quotes
- “It hurts because it matters.” – John Green
- “No one ‘just adopts’.” ― Jody Cantrell Dyer
- “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” -Dr Seuss
- “I held you every second of your life.” -Stephanie Paige Cole
- “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
- “A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love.” -Joanne Cacciatore
- “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” -Thomas Campbell.
- “I am a mother of an angel.” -Anonymous
- “Though my heart may break, I will celebrate the life that was given to me.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes you have to let go of what’s gone to make room for what is coming.” – Mandy Hale
- “Even if you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.” -Unknown
- “There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world.” -Anonymous
- “Sometimes it takes a heartache to shake us awake and help us see what really matters.” – Unknown
- “I carry your heart with me, I am never without it.” -E. E. Cummings
- “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
- “To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.” – Dr. Burton Grebin
- “When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.” – Korean Proverb
- “Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.” -Sarah Dessen
- “I wish I could have held you just once before you left us.” – Conan Gray
- “He chose to let go to give space to his brothers to grow.” – Celine Dion
- “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” – J.M. Barrie
- “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”-A. A. Milne
- “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” -Maya Angelou
- “There is no time limit to healing. You take as much time as you need.” – S.L Gray
- “You never arrived in my arms, but you will never leave my heart.” -Zoe Clark-Coates
- “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss (see all quotes by Dr. Seuss)
- “There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.” – Unknown
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” -Winnie the Pooh
- “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
- “When we lose one blessing, another is most often unexpectedly given in its place” – C.S. Lewis
- “Listen for my footfall in your heart. I am not gone but merely walk within you.” -Nicholas Evans
- “Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there’s been endless days of rain.” -Christina Greer
- “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.” – The Prophet
- “A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.” – RJ Gonzales, Mundahlia
- “You didn’t stay for long, but in those precious few weeks, you changed me forever.” – Zoe Clark-Coates
- “Imagine a love so strong it made saying hello and goodbye in the same day worth all the pain.” – Unknown
- “I’ll love for forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” -Robert Munsch
- “When you carry a life and it’s there, and then gone, a part of your soul dies. Forever.” – Casey Wiegano
- “The strongest person in the world is a grieving mother that wakes up and keeps going every day.” – Unknown
- “Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief… as long as you make room for other things too.” – “Bubbles,” The Wire
- “You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn’t mean letting go.” – Mary VanHaute
- “Ann: How my heart has ached. How empty I have felt. How I’ve ached to hold my two babies.” -K. Howard Joslin
- “When you get blindsided by your body, that betrayal of your body is very hard to overcome.” – Hilarie Burton
- “Any woman who’d ever lost a child knew of the hollowness that remained within the soul.” – Brittainy C. Cherry
- “Grieving is like having broken ribs. On the outside, you look fine, but with every breath, it hurts.” – Unknown
- “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” -Helen Keller
- “At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.” – Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer
- “Heaven and earth may separate us today, but nothing will ever change the fact that you made me a mom.” – Unknown
- “I never heard you, but I hear you. I never held you, but I feel you. I never knew you, but I love you.” – Unknown
- “It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.” – Patti Davis
- “There is a unique pain that comes from preparing a place in your heart for a child that never comes.” – David Platt
- “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley (see more Bob Marley quotes)
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, or touched, but are felt in the heart.” – Helen Keller
- “Let us weep for what was, and smile for what is.” – Immanuel Kant
- “The experience of a miscarriage can be sad, isolating and heartbreaking but you are not alone in your grief.” – Shari Brady
- “Losing a child doesn’t make you less of a mother, it means you had a child to lose.” – Unknown
- “The pain of losing a child is unmatched and never goes away, but it does get better over time.” – Unknown
- “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” – Taylor Swift
- “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place” – Sarah Dessen
- “The loss of a child leaves a heartache that will never heal. Remembering your precious angel helps to ease the pain and bring some comfort.” – Unknown
- “Time will never take away the pain of your loss, but it may help you to heal and move on with your life.” – Unknown
- “We must accept the reality that we can not always control every circumstance in our lives, but we can choose how we respond to them.” – Unknown
- “No matter how dark the days may seem, no storm lasts forever. Rise up, take a breath and keep going.” – Unknown
- “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe
- “Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.” – Meghan Markle
- “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” -William Shakespeare
- “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin
- “There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “You were but a drop of rain to the eye but managed to flood my heart with love during your brief time with us.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes the small sounds of blessings are found in the hardest moments of life. Listen for the whispers…” – Maureen Watts
- “There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve and that is different for everyone.” – Nathalie Himmelrich
- “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” – Chrissy Teigen
- “This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “…hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I had hoped.” -Natalie Brenner
- “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
- “Though your body may heal quickly, the emotional wound of your pregnancy loss may linger. Give yourself time to grieve.” – Unknown
- “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
- “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,
- “We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.” -Paulo Coelho
- “Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.” – Katherine Longshore, Brazen
- “As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded with. God for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.” ― Ariana Carruth
- “All I could do was cry; I felt desolate, the tears rolling down my cheeks as I tried to comprehend what had happened.” -Colette Centeno Fox
- “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.” -Helen Keller
- “At sunset, the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it.” – L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
- “She was born silent after fighting so hard to make it to our world. She is at peace now and will live forever in our hearts.” – Christina Perri
- “Why on Earth do I keep getting pregnant if I can’t have a kid? Like what is this? Either shut the door or let me have a kid.” – Carrie Underwood
- “When a baby is born, it’s a mother’s instinct to protect her baby. When a baby dies, it’s a mother’s instinct to protect their memory.” – Unknown
- “You’re never really ready to be told that there’s no heartbeat. But stay strong because life goes on and it is nobody’s fault.” – Elisabeth Canalis
- “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 at all.” – Giuliana Rancic
- “You are near, even if I don’t see you. You are with me, even if you are far away. You are in my heart, in my thoughts, in my life, always.” – Unknown
- “Why on Earth do I keep getting pregnant if I can’t have a kid? Like what is this? Either shut the door or let me have a kid.” -Singer Carrie Underwood
- “I miss you more then 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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “A miscarriage is not a failure, because a failure implies that it’s something you can control. Miscarriages are beyond our control.” – Dr. Simone Whitmore
- “Grief is wild like the sea, but it doesn’t need to destroy us. We can’t conquer it, but we can navigate it, and we can find Jesus there too.” -Ariel Booker
- “Do you want to get into my life? Just because you’ve brought it up, I’ve had three miscarriages, but I know what it’s like to be pregnant.” – Barbara Walters
- “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
- “I have no shame or embarrassment with this experience. I want to be a part of the effort to normalize miscarriage and remove the stigma from it.” – Hilaria Baldwin
- “I learned that all pain and loss is in fact a gift. Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else.” – Beyonce
- “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
- “I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them. I don’t say it’s a walk in the park. But what are you going to do? We just try again.” – Courteney Cox
- “‘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
- “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” -Leo Tolstoy
- “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
- “Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.” -Mark Twain
- “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you.” – A.A. Milne
- “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
- “I beat myself up for it because I think that the reason it happened is just the lifestyle I was living. I wasn’t drinking. I wasn’t doing drugs. I was ******* overworked.” -Singer Halsey
- “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
- “It kind of shook us both and took us into a place that was really dark and difficult. When that happened… I wasn’t able to even talk to anybody about it. That was not easy.” – Mariah Carey
- “I had a really bad experience when I was pregnant with my third. It didn’t work out, and I nearly died. So I am like, ‘Are we good here or should we go back and try again?” – Gwyneth Paltrow
- “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
- “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
- “I had a really bad experience when I was pregnant with my third. It didn’t work out, and I nearly died. So I am like, ‘Are we good here or should we go back and try again?’” -Actress Gwyneth Paltrow
- “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.” – Christine O’Keeffe Lafser
- “I felt lost and alone, and I felt like I failed. I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.” – Michelle Obama
- “An interrupted pregnancy is something personal and private. There is always a story behind the loss of a child. Let us not dismiss that story but listen to it with love and compassion.” -Adriana Vandelinde
- “I like to believe that all the babies whom died in the womb are with mothers who died giving birth. There’s a sentimental notion about this kind of perspective – a feeling of peace amidst deep grief.” -Nikki Rowe
- “She was so festive and smiling, obviously for the cameras, and spending time with everyone. And then, literally, at night, [she was] crying herself to sleep.” -Nick Cannon, talking about former wife Mariah Carey.
- “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
- “I felt lost and alone, and I felt like I failed … I didn’t know how common miscarriages were, because we don’t talk about them. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.” -Former First Lady Michelle Obama
- “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’Keefe Lafser
- “I remember hoping my husband’s parents wouldn’t be disappointed. It was this intrinsic concern. I didn’t want them to feel like their son married a bad seed – and they didn’t feel that way; they were very supportive.” – Ali Wong
- “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
- “I remember hoping my husband’s parents wouldn’t be disappointed. It was this intrinsic concern. I didn’t want them to feel like their son married a bad seed – and they didn’t feel that way; they were very supportive.” -Comedian Ali Wong
- “Being an almost mother isn’t a thing. You have seven children, whether they made it here or not doesn’t take away from the fact they existed. They were yours, and they were loved fully if only for those small moments.” -Brittainy C. Cherry
- “I had these guilty feelings of, ‘If I can’t even take care of a child for a week in my stomach, I can’t raise a child on my own.’ I felt guilty to Andrew that I had lost his child, and I felt guilty to God that I lost his child.” – Shawn Johnson
- I went into the studio and wrote the saddest song I’ve ever written in my life. And it was actually the first song I wrote for my album. And it was the best form of therapy for me, because it was the saddest thing I’ve ever been through.” – Beyoncé
- “I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.” -Anna White
- “I went into the studio and wrote the saddest song I’ve ever written in my life. And it was actually the first song I wrote for my album. And it was the best form of therapy for me, because it was the saddest thing I’ve ever been through.” -Singer Beyoncé
- “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.” – Jay Neugeboren, An Orphan’s Tale
- “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
- “You will lose someone you can’t live without and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up.” -Anne Lamott
- “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
- “I fought tooth and nail to be a mother. I suffered several miscarriages including two at five months. That’s when you have the clothes already picked out, the nursery is already painted. They ask you if you want a funeral or do you want the cremation. We went through that not once but twice, me and my husband.” – Wendy Williams
- “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll 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.” ―David Kessler and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- “What my sister needed was not people urging her, as so many did, to get pregnant again as soon as possible, but acknowledgment 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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “I think that’s one of the reasons women don’t tell people when they’ve had a miscarriage-they think it’s their fault. I remember I worried what my in-laws would think, which is so crazy. I thought they’d think their son had married a terrible person. Also, because I made the mistake of telling people as soon as I got pregnant, I then had to tell them the bad news and then I felt like I was burdening them.” – Ali Wong
- “Grief that is not talked about, acknowledged or shared often has nowhere to go and no way to be released. It can stay, trapped within you for years, until something -or someone- gives you the courage and permission to allow it out.” ― Alexandra Stoddard
- “You don’t need to forget about your loss, but you can put it in perspective and move on. There is no right or wrong way to grieve—each of us experiences our sadness and pain in different ways. Find what works for you. ” ―Amber Rose
- “Miscarriage can feel like an invisible grief, one that is difficult to express or even acknowledge. It is a loss of potential and a reminder of your own mortality. And yet, it is also an experience that connects us with each other in our shared humanity and fragility.” ― Victoria Fedden
- “Carrying a child in our womb is more than just carrying a physical being. It carries hope, love and dreams. When that hope and those dreams are lost, grief follows. Allowing ourselves to grieve is the first step toward healing, so don’t be scared of your own tears or deny yourself the sadness.” ―Anonymous
Wrapping Up
Losing a baby through miscarriage is an incredibly difficult experience and one that no one should have to go through. We hope these 150 miscarriage quotes can help provide some comfort or understanding during this challenging time. Remember, it’s important to be kind to yourself and reach out for support if you need it. Mourning the loss of a child is normal, and it’s ok to take time to grieve.
No matter what you are going through right now, know that you are not alone. There is always hope ahead, even in the darkest of times. Take care of yourself and don’t be afraid to reach out for help when needed.
We hope you have found comfort, strength and peace in these miscarriage quotes. May they accompany you through your healing journey and help bring light to the darkness.
Take care of yourself.
