50 Inspirational Quotes to Comfort and Heal After a Miscarriage

"I felt lost and alone, and I felt like I failed. I didn't know how common miscarriages were because we don't talk about them. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we're broken."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

- Winnie the Pooh

"I carry your heart with me, I am never without it."

- E. E. Cummings

"A mother is never defined by the number of children you can see, but by the love that she holds in her heart."

- Franchesca Cox

"You never arrived in my arms, but you will never leave my heart."

- Zoe Clark-Coates

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

- David Platt

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you."

- A.A. Milne

"I held you every second of your life."

- Stephanie Paige Cole

"You didn’t stay for long, but in those precious few weeks, you changed me forever."

- Zoe Clark-Coates

"The pain you have been feeling can’t compare to the joy that is coming."

- Romans 8: 18

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."

- Corinthians 13: 7-8

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

- Meghan Markle

"If you’ve lost a child, I need you to know that you’re not alone. Our grief has woven together and we’ve found ourselves a part of this club that no one ever wanted to join. And it sucks, it’s okay to say that."

- Kaitlyn Facista

"Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart."

- Mandy Harrison

"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

"She is just as real as moms with living children. For she is still a mother. She is the bereaved mother."

- Lindsey Henke

"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

"We are broken, / And we will not be mended / Until we remember / That we are unbreakable."

- Louise Diamond

"Everything lost is found again, / In a new form, In a new way. / Everything hurt is healed again, / In a new life, In a new day."

- From “Kore Chant: Spring and Fall Equinox," as written in “The Spiral Dance” by Starhawk

"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

"Your heart stopped but my love for you did not."

- Zoe Clark-Coates

"Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours."

- Rumi

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

- Rumi

"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."

- Vicki Harrison

"I had these guilty feelings of, 'If I can’t even take care of a child for a week in my stomach, I can’t raise a child on my own.' I felt guilty to Andrew that I had lost his child, and I felt guilty to God that I lost his child."

- Shawn Johnson

"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven’t. Most don’t mention it. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she’ll know."

- Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart; I'll stay there forever."

- Winnie the Pooh

"I learned that all pain and loss is in fact a gift. Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else."

- Beyonce

"She was born silent after fighting so hard to make it to our world. She is at peace now and will live forever in our hearts."

- Christina Perri

"There is no time limit to healing. You take as much time as you need."

- S.L Gray

"A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love."

- Joanne Cacciatore

"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

"I’ll love for forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be."

- Robert Munsch

"You’re never really ready to be told that there’s no heartbeat. But stay strong because life goes on and it is nobody’s fault."

- Elisabeth Canalis

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

- Casey Wiegano

"A miscarriage is not a failure, because a failure implies that it’s something you can control. Miscarriages are beyond our control."

- Dr. Simone Whitmore

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, or touched, but are felt in the heart."

- Helen Keller

"You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn't mean letting go."

- Mary VanHaute

"Babies lost in the womb were never touched by fear. They were never cold, never hungry, never alone and importantly always knew love."

- Zoe Clark-Coates

"Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."

- Vicki Harrison

"I have no shame or embarrassment with this experience. I want to be a part of the effort to normalize miscarriage and remove the stigma from it."

- Hilaria Baldwin

"It hurts because it matters."

- John Green

"A pregnancy loss is a death we experience in our own bodies: There is no death we experience more intimately than one that literally passes through us."

- Elizabeth Bechard

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- Maya Angelou

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

- David Platt

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

- Nathalie Himmelrich

"I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about it. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken… I think it’s the worst thing we do to each other as women — not share the truth about our bodies and how they work, and how they don’t work."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Conan Gray

"Having put myself back together after our first miscarriage, I was terrified of falling because after the fall, there’s the crash — and after the crash, there are a million little pieces to be put back together. I had only just put myself back together and I didn’t have the strength to fall… But fall I would. And into a million little pieces, I would break. And in the darkness, I would find my greatest strength."

- Elisa Henry Morton

"We, as females, don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss. I lost nine children by miscarriage. It is no small thing, physically nor emotionally, yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure. Instead of receiving the much needed compassion and empathy and healing which we so need."

- Sharon Stone

"We see the one in her stroller We see the one in her arms But the one in her heart is invisible Unseen by the world but as real and loved as a child can be"

- Bunmi Laditan

"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

"Listen for my footfall in your heart. I am not gone but merely walk within you."

- Nicholas Evans

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

- Brittainy C. Cherry

"It’s amazing how much people hide it. They feel like, ‘What did I do wrong?’ But in so many cases you didn’t do anything at all."

- Giuliana Rancic

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."

- Psalm 34:18

"When you get blindsided by your body, that betrayal of your body is very hard to overcome."

- Hilarie Burton

"When we lose one blessing, another is most often unexpectedly given in its place."

- C.S. Lewis

"I heard the Lord whisper these words to me: ‘I will avenge and redeem them. I will never forget them. I hear every one of your and their cries for justice."

- Andriana Robinson

"When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, there isn’t a word to describe them."

- Ronald Reagan

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart."

- Helen Keller

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever."

- A.A. MILNE

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

- Psalm 73:26

"Your fingerprints are on my heart."

- Tom Krause

"In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams…that is where you and I shall meet."

- Alice Through the Looking Glass

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

- Nicholas Sparks

"In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind."

- John 1:4

"For this child, we have prayed."

- 1 Samuel 1:27-28

"I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that you have prepared."

- Exodus 23: 20

"I will not cause pain without allowing something new to be born, says the Lord."

- Isaiah 66:9

"If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Though she stumbles, she will not fall, for the Lord upholds her with His right hand."

- Psalm 37:24

"Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain; but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain."

- Zion Lee

"Every time I told anyone, it felt freeing. And not one person gave me a long hug. People were really cool about it actually. Some offered to do chores for me, some sent me Indian take-out, some provided me with facts (“one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage!”) and many shared their own experiences having miscarriages. This thing that felt like a loss was making me feel more whole. It was connecting me to people."

- Shaina Feinberg

"Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there have been endless days of rain."

- Christina Greer

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

- Katherine Longshore

"Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."

- W.S. Merwin

"The light in my body broke and the darkness changed me into someone that could heal it."

- Jessica Lakritz

"[My husband, Jon] hated [taking photos in the hospital during the pregnancy loss]. I could tell. It didn’t make sense to him at the time. But I knew I needed to know of this moment forever, the same way I needed to remember us kissing at the end of the aisle, the same way I needed to remember our tears of joy after [our children] Luna and Miles. And I absolutely knew I needed to share this story."

- Chrissy Teigen

"I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains."

- Anne Frank

"Rainbows remind us that even after the darkest clouds, and the fiercest winds, there is still beauty."

- Katrina Mayer

"You are the rainbow that adds colors to my gray skies."

- Avijeet Das

"A person’s a person, no matter how small."

- Dr. Seuss

"I guess love wasn’t enough for us to survive. I swear, I swear, I swear I tried. You took the life right out of me. I’m so unlucky. I can’t breathe. You took the life right out of me. I’m longing for your heartbeat, heartbeat."

- Beyoncé Knowles

"Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye You were bigger than the whole sky You were more than just a short time And I’ve got a lot to pine about I’ve got a lot to live without I’m never gonna meet What could’ve been, would’ve been What should’ve been you What could’ve been, would’ve been you"

- Taylor Swift

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal."

- Unknown

"Imagine a love so strong it made saying hello and goodbye in the same day worth all the pain."

"Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love."

"Your life was a blessing. Your memory a treasure. Loved beyond words. Missed beyond measure."

"I carried you every second of your life and I will love you for the rest of mine."

"For the day will come where you see your unborn baby, not through tears of sorrow but a smile in memory of his short time with you on earth."

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

"There is no one too small that they cannot leave footprints in our hearts."

- Unknown

"I wanted to give you the world, but you got Heaven Instead."

- Unknown

"Before I carried the pain, I carried you. And in my heart, I carry you still."

- Unknown

"Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever."

- Unknown

"Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith . . . it is the price of love."

"Some say you are too painful to remember. I say you are too precious to forget."

- Unknown

"Grieving is like having broken ribs. On the outside you look fine, but with every breath, it hurts."

"It is perfectly okay to admit you’re not okay."

- Unknown

"Perhaps they are not the stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy."

- Unknown

"How very quietly you tiptoed into our world, silently, only for a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footprints have left upon our hearts."

- Unknown

"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."

"No one will ever know the strength of my love for you. You’re the only one who knew my heart from the inside."

"A life may last just for a moment, but memory can make that moment last forever."

"You were carried for only a moment but are loved for a lifetime."

"I never heard you, but I hear you. I never held you, but I feel you. I never knew you, but I love you."

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

"What does a miscarriage feel like? It feels as if you have been short-changed by nature. You will cry for what might have been but nobody will understand because they didn’t feel it."

"Do not muffle your cries, for they are the sound of pregnancy loss."

"I may have never met you, but I will always love you."

"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."

"You are near, even if I don’t see you. You are with me, even if you are far away. You are in my heart, in my thoughts, in my life, always."

"She/he was born silent into this world, but their little life spoke volumes."

- Unknown

"The God of all grace now holds what this mother’s womb once did."

- Unknown

"God holds you in His arms, I hold you in my heart."

- Unknown

"Heaven and earth may separate us today, but nothing will ever change the fact that you made me a mom."

- Unknown

"Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day…unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear."

- Unknown

"A life need not be long lived, for it to be meaningful."

- Unknown

"The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow."

- Unknown

"Life need not be long-lived for it to be meaningful."

- Unknown

"There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world."

- Unknown

"If our love was enough to save you, you would have lived forever."

- Unknown

"Even those who never fully blossom bring beauty into the world."

"Because someone we love is in heaven, there’s a little bit of heaven in our home."

- Unknown

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

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

"A life need not be long-lived for it to be meaningful."

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

"I carried you for only a moment, but you will be loved for a lifetime."

"Jesus, I wanted to sit my babies on my lap and tell them about You. As I can't do that now, will You sit them on Your knee and tell them about me?"

"She was born silent into this world, but her little life spoke volumes."

"I may have only held you in my arms for a moment, but I will hold you in my heart forever."

"And to think, the first thing he saw when his little eyes opened was the face of Jesus."

"Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give but cannot. Grief is just love with no place to go."

"I will hold you in my heart until I can hold you in Heaven."

"There is no footprint too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world."

"When a baby is born, it's a mother's instinct to protect her baby. When a baby dies, it's a mother's instinct to protect their memory."

"I was pregnant.  I am a mother.   I didn’t carry my baby very long.  I am a mother.  I love a baby that didn’t make it here to be held.  I am a mother.  I grieve for my baby that I didn’t carry to term.  I am a mother I am a mother. I am a mother."

"How quietly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only for a moment you stayed…but what an imprint your footprints have left upon our hearts."

"Planted on earth to bloom in Heaven."

"I carried you every second of your life, and I will love you for every second of mine."

"Some only dream of angels, I held one in my arms."

"You were born silent. Perfect and beautiful. Still loved. Still missed. Still remembered. Everyday. Stillborn. Still Born."

"A baby gone to Heaven. An Angel picked too soon. A child who’s loved forever, beyond the stars and the moon."

"An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby’s birth. Then whispered as she closed the book, ‘Too beautiful for earth.’"

"We were going to have a baby, but we had an angel instead."