Gratitude Quotes

"Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go."

- Jamie Anderson

"This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few."

- Meghan Markle

"Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign or weakness nor a lack of faith, it is the price of love."

- Chip Pons

"Don’t forget that when people lose a baby, they aren’t just losing a newborn. They are also losing their toddler taking their first step. Their infant starting to read. Their teenager graduating high school. Their grown child getting married to the love of their life… In the blink of an eye, the future was erased."

- Zoe Clark-Coates

"It’s not that motherhood is out of reach, it’s that it’s just out of reach. It’s not that motherhood didn’t happen, it’s that it almost did and, in fact, still could. The difference between the grief of infertility and other reasons for mourning - the loss of a spouse, for example - is in that promise of ‘just,’ in ‘almost,’ in ‘still could.”"

- Alexandra Kimball, The Seed: Infertility is a Feminist Issue

"There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve and that is different for everyone."

- Nathalie Himmelrich, Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple

"There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve, and that is different for everyone."

- Nathalie Himmelrich

"There is a unique pain that comes from preparing a place in your heart for a child who never comes."

- David Platt

"When you carry a life and it’s there, and then gone, a part of your soul dies. Forever."

- Casey Wiegano

"Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go."

- Jamie Anderson

"Any woman who’d ever lost a child knew of the hollowness that remained within the soul."

- Brittainy C. Cherry

"I wish I could have held you just once before you left us."

- Conan Gray

"I thank God every time I remember you. I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel."

- Philippians 1:3-5

"I hold you in my heart, for we have shared God’s blessings."

- Philippians 1:7

"Such a long, long time to be gone And a short time to be there"

- GratefulRed13

"When my dad passed away at the hospital, we played Ripple and Brokedown Palace right there in the room as we said goodbye. "Fare you well, fare you well I love you more than words can tell Listen to the river sing sweet songs To rock my soul" I'll never listen to those songs again without thinking about him. But that's not a bad thing."

- JacobCHR

"Your wings were ready, but my heart was not."

"You will always be my favorite ‘what if.’"

"I will always wonder who you would have been."

"Losing a pregnancy is like losing a part of oneself that will never be made whole again."

"You were with me for just a little while. I grieve because I’ll never see the magic in your smile."

"A piece of my heart will never be at peace again."

"Even when tears no longer stain my face, my heart is still stained by miscarriage."

"I would have given my last breath to see you take your first."

"A heart of gold stopped beating, two smiling eyes closed to rest. God broke our hearts to prove to us, he only takes the best."

"If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane, we would walk right up to heaven and bring you back again."

"A friend in spirit, indeed. Let us take joy in remembering you as you were in life."

"The memories we shared are the ones I hold onto tightly, for they bring you back to me, if only for a moment."

"We remember, we honor, we carry you in our hearts."