Quotes About Miscarriage

#1. It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.

Khloe Kardashian

#2. I realized that I had to rebuild my foundation. I had a choice about how to see my life: I could look only at the negative or I could emphasise the positive. It took all the energy I could muster to accept that my miscarriage had happened for a reason.

Zara Phillips

#3. Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

Samuel Johnson

#4. I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Samuel Johnson

#5. Just look at my sweater, you disgusting monster."
"Only the most flamboyant offal would be seen in a miscarriage like that. You must have some shame or at least some taste in dress.

John Kennedy Toole

#6. when she made the most unnecessary statement I had ever heard. "Well, you're still under twelve weeks gestation, so you could still have a miscarriage. Oh, but don't worry- it's just a little clump of cells right now." I wondered if she was thinking that I wanted to have a miscarriage.

E. McNew

#7. Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Anton Chekhov

#8. Impairment of fertility in both men and women because of hypothyroidism is firmly entrenched in medical literature ... Miscarriage and fertility problems are a red flag for hypothyroidism.

Mark Starr

#9. After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Christie Brinkley

#10. To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

George Washington

#11. Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

Emily Oster

#12. The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth.

Emily Oster

#13. I'd like to professionally ... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

George Zimmerman

#14. Thankfully, I have never experienced a miscarriage, but I have friends and family who have, and I've talked to them about their feelings.

Neve McIntosh

#15. Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things."
"Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

Orson Scott Card

#16. I hope you have a miscarriage on a Walmart floor and have the baby's room already decorated.

Jim Norton

#17. Johnny and Marissa, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage. Then comes an abrupt, tragic miscarriage. Then comes blame, then comes despair. Two hearts damaged beyond repair... Johnny leaves Marissa, and takes the tree. D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

Kris Wilson

#18. I'd had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and it's not until something pretty major happens that you're like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.

Tori Spelling

#19. My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

Jack Kemp

#20. Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

J. William Fulbright

#21. Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.

E.C. Riegel

#22. Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.

Rachel Joyce

#23. With miscarriage or infant loss, hopes and dreams are shattered before they can even begin.

Melissa L Eshleman

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#27. Ann: You didn't cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

K. Howard Joslin

#28. Learn to see the gift in the adversity. By doing this you will begin to find true peace in your struggle.

Stacey Urrutia

#29. Ann: How my heart has ached. How empty I have felt. How I've ached to hold my two babies.

K. Howard Joslin

#30. Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

Thomas Sprat

#31. How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes

Alisa Mullen

#32. A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

R.J. Gonzales

#33. So many women come to me saying, "I have lost too,
and this one, and this one". So many embryos retreat
to flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don't tell me that it
will happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:
the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes.

Zoe Brigley

#34. Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman - a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy - a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other.

Pawan Mishra

#35. The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Cheryl Strayed

#36. Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

Samuel Johnson

#37. Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

Samuel Johnson

#38. 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

#39. Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.

Katherine Longshore

#40. But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen.

-Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue

Ariel Levy

#41. Ann: I feel like I should read verses and be comforted. But it doesn't happen.

K. Howard Joslin

#42. 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

#43. Sometimes when life doesn't work out as you planned, there is a greater force at work.

Deanna Kahler

#44. In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

Thomas Beecham

#45. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer