Grief, Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Pregnancy Loss Quotes to Guide Your Healing
Many may think they are quotes or clichés of grief. Clichés of loss. When you are going through something, often sayings can resonate to the deepest level of your heart. If you are supporting someone in loss, these may give you a source of connection. Here are some of the sayings that resonated for me, either from other sources or from my own heart. Do any of these speak to you? Let us be your voice to your family, friends, and loved ones about your loss. Each one has been created in a beautiful meme on our Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. We can be the voice when you are struggling to find yours in your own grief or as you walk along side someone. Feel free to share all of our memes.
Grief Quotes
- Love exposes us to loss.
- Where there is deep grief there is great loss.
- Grief is just love. It is all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that love gathers in the eyes and in the hollow part of your chest. It is love with no place to go.
- Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith. It is just the price of love.
- Grief is a long and arduous journey. Small steps forward each day will find you in a much different place than you started if you let it.
- Rain and tears fall the same both happen when the clouds and heart can no longer bear the weight.
- Our hearts yearn to find peace and solace in the journey of grief sorrow and struggle.
- While the storms of grief and sorrow are present, they nestle abounding love and blessings.
- Vulnerability of loss can enrich our souls.
- Grief is like learning to swim. It’s natural to only learn one stroke at a time.
- To not allow the pain of loss in is sometimes the best way to protect your heart until it is ready. Your time. Your pace.
- When hello and goodbye are in the same day, it is difficult to express all of your love.
- Everyone travels a different course and different road to peace and contentment.
- One of the loneliest walks is the one down the path of grief.
- Good-bye is the most difficult when the story was not finished.
- Grief isn’t about finding silver linings. It’s about transformations.
- Running from the past is the surest way to be defined by it. Brene Brown
- Time is the wisest counselor
- There is no timeline in grief. Take all the time you need.
- As the tide comes and goes, so does my pain of missing you.
- When grief strikes again, with all of its rawness, remember it is because love is still there.
Quotes about Angel-babies and Our Babies Gone Too Soon
- You never took a breath but left me breathless.
- I held an angel in my arms.
- They were born silent into this world, but their little life spoke volumes in my heart.
- They were the only ones who heard my heartbeat for them.
- We all cry the same loss for our little babies we did not hold for long enough.
- I only carried them for a moment, and they are still loved for a lifetime.
- I did not lose a child; they will always remain in my heart.
- I will hold you in my heart until I hold you in heaven.
- I am yours and you are mine. No passage of time will change that.
- Your wings were ready my heart was not.
- I am learning to live with the love you left behind.
- I cannot wait for the day I do not have to miss you anymore.
- I loved you for your whole life. I will miss you for the rest of mine.
- I will love you through the sands of time.
- Never again will I be alone, you will forever be in my heart.
- I did not give you the gift of life, life gave me the gift of you.
- Rest of my life I will search for moments of you.
- Forgiving ourselves is the first step in forgiving others.
- I am broken-hearted and still love them with my whole heart.
- I may not have a child in my arms, but I have a child in my heart leading the way.
- I carried you every second of your life, and I will love you every second of mine.
Quotes about the Grief Process and Moving Forward In Grief
- Reflection gives space for change
- We get a choice to live in the sunshine of their life or the shadow of their death.
- The raging sea of life’s events have the potential to bring us to our best form, if we let it.
- Our story is written long before us.
- There are blessings amidst the blunder.
- Happiness is found even in the darkest of moments if we just search for the light.
- The bigger the storm, the brighter the rainbow.
- Find joy in your child’s continued presence.
- The grief process has the ability to change into a practice.
- I am defining grief, so it does not define me.
- Just a small shift in perspective can steer your course in a very different direction.
- Changes in our trajectory give us opportunity to change.
- Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
- It just takes one small thing to put some wind in your sails in the right direction.
- When your world is turned upside down, sometimes you need a different perspective.
- It is in giving that we receive and learn to give ourselves more abundantly
- It is easy to lean in hard times. The challenge is to praise God in the tough times.
- Time- we cannot buy it in the store. We cannot make more of it. Once we give it, it can never be taken back.
- The Threads of memories will soon create a beautiful tapestry.
- Cry more profoundly, see more clearly, love more abundantly.
- Every life has a purpose for their presence in our lives.
- Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.
- In life, we always have two choices. The path you take today leads your healing tomorrow.
- Strength comes when you learn to lean.
- Relationships multiply joys and divide griefs.
- We do not heal the past by living in it. Just by merely living presently each day.
- We grow through what we go through.
- Their short presence in our lives blesses us presently.
- Learn to embrace your unique journey. You can fully cherish it if you let go of what you thought it would be.
- What we learn in the dark guides our future in the light.
- Cherish the now- no matter how small.
- The struggle is where the character is built
- If God brings you to it then He will bring you through it.
- A rainbow only comes after a storm.
- We just have to turn towards our grief to see the light.
- True joy can only be discovered after you have learned true heartache and despair.
- You never know how strong you are until strong is the only choice you have.
Pregnancy Loss Quotes
- Mother not defined by the children she holds in her arms, but rather the ones she holds in her heart.
- Your journey will become someone else’s survival guide.
- It is a short love story so write it well.
- For those that understand, no explanation is needed. For those that do not, no explanation is possible.
- Physical and emotional healing take time. With space they will both mend.
Quotes about the Grief Journaling Process
- God is the author; you only get to edit.
- We are all in the same boat, but our stories are all different.
- The first draft of this chapter does not have to be the final edit. You choose.
- Reflection gives space for change.
- There is gold in every piece of your story.
- Be gentle with one another. You do not know what chapter you walked in on and what was written in their story before.
- Find joy in your story- you only have one life to live.
- We all want to teach our children, but they end of teaching us about life more abundantly than we can imagine.
- You can only start a new chapter if you stop rereading the last.
- This chapter might be preparing you for exactly what you hoped for.
- It is your choice you can choose how the story is narrated.
- It is how you fill up the rest of the pages that count.
Quotes of Trying to Conceive and Pregnancy After Loss
- Conception is like the tides of the sea. A period of time with inspiration, hope, and excitement followed by disappoint and loss of dreams each month.
- Loving again exposes us to the vulnerability to loss.
- The brokenhearted are the bravest among us- they dared to love. Brene Brown.
- Choose faith over fear.
Quotes of Faith During Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Pregnancy Loss
- Faith is the courage to believe in what we cannot see and strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.
- Faith just takes one giant leap.
- Worry is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.
- When faith is tested you learn to be patient.
- Faith is the assurance of things yet hoped for. Rick McKinley.
- Sorry looks down. Fear looks around. Faith looks up.
- Now these three things remain, faith hope and love but the greatest of these is love.
Faith-Based Religious Quotes of Comfort During Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Pregnancy Loss
- Just imagine the first thing they saw was the face of Jesus.
- Hope is the thing with feathers that perched in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson.
- Our fragility can be met from strength above.
- Knowing the reason of why they left does not bring them back in our arms. Knowing they are in Christ’s arms brings peace.
- All other ground is sinking sand.
- We were first loved so we could love.
- God suffers with us.
- Everything good is given from above.
- Search for his presence like a treasure on the beach.
- Reflections pointed at God’s presence are like footprints in the sand.
- Offer up concerns in prayer.
- Be still and know that I am God.
- You are loved.
- We are all sons and daughters of Christ.
- I will hold you in the palm of my hand.
- A bigger love will shine through the sorrow.
- Mourning lasts for a night but joy comes in the morning.
- The sun shines on you, so let the Son shine through you.
- Rest in the light of his love.
- Peace follows when you trust.
- We do not hope for the things we already have.
- Hope in the future, faith that you have got this. Every inch adds up to a mile.
- We can hope for hope.