Top 41 Losing Your Child Quotes
#1. Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
Jodi Picoult
#2. Losing your child is a very difficult situation to deal with. It is not something you get over; it is something you learn to work through.
J.J. Southwell
#3. Good morning, bright sunshine, We're glad you are here. You make the world happy, And bring us good cheer." It was something he had heard as a child and, isolated here on Mars, he had remembered it and used it to keep from losing his power of speech.
Various
#4. There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#5. A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
Halldor Laxness
#6. I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.
Catherynne M Valente
#7. When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
Margaret Mahy
#8. Did Mr. Poe write as a boy?
Dear me, yes. It was all he had, what with losing his mother as a toddling child and then being cast aside by his foster father. I think sometimes his pen was his only friend in the world
Lynn Cullen
#9. When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
David Walliams
#10. There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.
William Manchee
#11. The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.
Shiv Khera
#12. I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.
John F. Kerry
#13. When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.
John Rhys-Davies
#14. That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can't see them in the supermarket or wherever. It's a terrible, terrible moment ... the most unimaginable horror.
James Nesbitt
#15. There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
David LaChapelle
#16. The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#17. Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
Barbara Bush
#18. The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
Isabel Allende
#19. That made sense. Not many couples lasted after losing a child.
Darynda Jones
#20. Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.
Jennifer Donnelly
#21. As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.
Ann Hood
#22. Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.
Thomas G. Stemberg
#24. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
Jodi Picoult
#25. We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey
#26. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
#27. As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.
Erin Gray
#28. 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
#29. When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
Elizabeth McCracken
#30. Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing battle. The predators are sophisticated in the use of computers and talented in the manipulation of children.
Kurt Eichenwald
#31. The child of God should not be overanxious to make new gains; what he essentially requires is to keep what he already has, for not losing is itself a gain. The way to retain what he possesses is to engage it.
Watchman Nee
#32. If I were you," Tom said, "I should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic." "But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?" Tom held up his hands. "I'm sorry, you're losing me." Mary exhaled smoke. "Possibly I am.
Chris Cleave
#33. A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.
Lois Wyse
#34. To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
Elizabeth Edwards
#35. Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie Flagg
#36. Yeah, she said she just can't wait for you and Daddy to get to heaven. ... From that moment on, the wound from one of the most painful episodes in our lives, losing a child we had wanted very much, began to heal.
Todd Burpo
#37. Missing Wrinkle I remember a very deep wrinkle on my forehead I was a worried child I see it no more Am I getting younger or losing my sight?
Kristy Rulebreaker
#38. There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.
Edward Hirsch
#39. Henry got me with child,
Knowing that I could not bring forth life
Without losing my own.
In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust.
Edgar Lee Masters
#40. No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line.
Dennis Prager
#41. Once this kid came into the world, Sally knew, she would live in constant terror of somehow injuring or losing her. Having her tucked deep inside her belly was the safest she would ever feel about the child, and even that was scary.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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