Losing A Child Quotes

• I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Children, Thinking, Died

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• 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

  Children, Husband, Losing A Loved One

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• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Children, Losing, Horrible

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• I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

  Natalie Portman

  Children, Thinking, Worst Nightmares

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• There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

  David LaChapelle

  Mother, Children, Grief

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. June 22, 2011.

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• If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Sad, Death, Children

  "Elizabeth Edwards: In Her Own Words" by Sarah Netter, abcnews.go.com. December 7, 2010.

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• To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Thinking, Losing

  "Elizabeth Edwards battles breast cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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• 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

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Children, Thinking, Losing

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• I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Pain, Children, Losing

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Mother, Children, Loss

  Karen Joy Fowler (2015). “Black Glass: Short Fictions”, p.42, Penguin

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