Grieving Child Quotes

#1. I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.

David Toop

#2. And while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C and liquified genital warts. And while they're all running out and crying, I hope one of them slips and accidentally molests a child.

Jim Norton

#3. That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I'd lost my daughter too.

Leslie A. Gordon

#4. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

#5. Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

Gregory Benford

#6. It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors

Arthur W. Pink

#7. What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.

Paul Harding

#8. Then, cutting across it all like a stick through the sand, a child's voice wailed, an acute, high-pitched sound, such as a small animal makes when, out of sheer boredom, you break its leg.

Zadie Smith

#9. When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

Lamar Odom

#10. Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.

Judith Lewis Herman

#11. The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.

Asa Don Brown

#12. Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs and your child's. You become stronger by remaining aware of your own well-being, which in turn makes you a stronger person for your child or children.

Elizabeth Berrien

#13. Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.

Elizabeth McCracken

#14. Though sympathy tugged at her, Sophie's imagination made fearsome leaps. The grieving widower. The destitute governess. A motherless child. It had all the makings of a scintillating novel.

Laura Frantz

#15. It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.

Nathalie Himmelrich

#16. Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.

Caroline Flohr