According to the March of Dimes, approximately 10 to 15% of all known pregnancies will end in miscarriage—some women will miscarry before even realizing they are pregnant. The special designation for October as Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month was made by President Ronald Regan back in 1988 to support those mothers who have suffered such a heartbreaking loss. In addition to the month-long awareness movement, October 15 was established as Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day in 2002. The yearly date celebrates babies who have died by miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS, ectopic and molar pregnancies, or other causes during pregnancy and infancy. There are many ways that parents and local communities honor those babies on October 15, like lighting a candle in their honor during the International Wave of Light at 7 p.m. or lighting up buildings in pink and blue in support of the lost little lives. It has been 13 years since my miscarriage, and I still grieve for the child that I never got to meet. Only those parents who have experienced that kind of gut-wrenching loss can fully comprehend the complete devastation that it brings, or the immense guilt sometimes felt when welcoming a rainbow baby after the storm of a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death. If you or someone you love has suffered a pregnancy loss, we invite you to read this list of comforting quotes about miscarriage. Some of these miscarriage quotes will help navigate your grief, while others will help you remember that you are not alone in your sorrow. There are statements from celebrities who have suffered a stillbirth or miscarriage, and meaningful sayings about babies who earned angel wings way too soon. Hopefully, these inspiring and encouraging messages and phrases will bring you some peace during the most difficult time in your life.
Comforting Quotes about miscarriage
- “Your wings were ready, but my heart was not.” — Unknown
- “You never arrived in my arms, but you will never leave my heart.” — Zoe Clark-Coates
- “You will always be my favorite ‘what if.’” — Unknown
- “It hurts because it matters.” — John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- “You were carried for only a moment but are loved for a lifetime.” — Unknown
- “There’s a unique pain that comes from preparing a place in your heart for a child who never comes.” — David Platt
- “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” — Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who
- “At sunset, the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it.” — L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
- “Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there have been endless days of rain.” — Christina Greer, Two-Week Wait: Motherhood Lost and Found
- “All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven’t. Most don’t mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn’t happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she’ll know.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Kingdom
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, or touched, but are felt in the heart.” — Helen Keller
- “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, Tiny Beautiful Things
- “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
- “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
- “I never heard you, but I hear you. I never held you, but I feel you. I never knew you, but I love you.” — Unknown
- “I will always wonder who you would have been.” — Unknown
- “Losing a pregnancy is like losing a part of oneself that will never be made whole again.” — Unknown
- “Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.” — Katherine Longshore, Brazen
- “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.” — Unknown
- “When you carry a life and it’s there, and then gone, a part of your soul dies. Forever.” — Casey Wiegano
- “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
- “Do not muffle your cries, for they are the sound of pregnancy loss.” — Unknown
- “I may have never met you, but I will always love you.” — Unknown
- “I’ll love for forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” — Robert Munsch, I’ll Love You Forever
- “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.” — Unknown
- “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” — S. Merwin
- “No one will ever know the strength of my love for you. You’re the only one who knew my heart from the inside.” — Unknown
Miscarriage quotes about grief
- “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
- “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou
- “Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith . . . it is the price of love.” — Unknown
- “There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve and that is different for everyone.” — Nathalie Himmelrich
- “You were with me for just a little while. I grieve because I’ll never see the magic in your smile.” — Unknown
- “Listen for my footfall in your heart. I am not gone but merely walk within you.” — Nicholas Evans
- “A piece of my heart will never be at peace again.” — Unknown
- “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
- “Any woman who’d ever lost a child knew of the hollowness that remained within the soul.” — Brittainy C. Cherry, Disgrace
- “Your life was a blessing. Your memory a treasure. Loved beyond words. Missed beyond measure.” — Unknown
- “A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love.” — Joanne Cacciatore
- “Even when tears no longer stain my face, my heart is still stained by miscarriage.” — Unknown
- “There is no time limit to healing. You take as much time as you need.” — S.L Gray
- “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we love. Where there is deep grief, there is great love.” — Unknown
- “I wish I could have held you just once before you left us.” — Conan Gray
- “I carried you every second of your life and I will love you for the rest of mine.” — Unknown
- “I would have given my last breath to see you take your first.” — 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.” — Unknown
- “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.” — Unknown
- “If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane, we would walk right up to heaven and bring you back again.” — Unknown
- “Grieving is like having broken ribs. On the outside you look fine, but with every breath, it hurts.” — Unknown
- “Imagine a love so strong it made saying hello and goodbye in the same day worth all the pain.” — Unknown
Infant loss quotes
- “She/he was born silent into this world, but their little life spoke volumes.” — Unknown
- “I held you every second of your life.” — Stephanie Paige Cole
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal.” — Unknown
- “To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.” — Dr. Burton Grebin
- “Some say you are too painful to remember. I say you are too precious to forget.” — Unknown
- “And to think when their little eyes open, the first thing they see is the face of Jesus.” — Unknown
- “Life need not be long-lived for it to be meaningful.” — 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.” — Dorothy Ferguson
- “Before I carried the pain, I carried you. And in my heart, I carry you still.” — Unknown
- “Our children change us, whether they live or not.” — Unknown
- “Heaven and earth may separate us today, but nothing will ever change the fact that you made me a mom.” — Unknown
- “A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.” — RJ Gonzales, Mundahlia
- “Not all siblings walk hand in hand, for some are in heaven while others walk on land.” — Unknown
- “Planted on earth to bloom in Heaven.” — Unknown
- “When a child is born, it is the mother’s instinct to protect the baby. When a child dies, it is the mother’s instinct to protect the memory.” — Unknown
- “My baby sleeps with the moon and the stars.” — Unknown
- “You were born silent. Perfect and beautiful. Still loved. Still missed. Still remembered. Everyday. Stillborn. Still born.” — Unknown
- “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, An Orphan’s Tale
- “A life may last just for a moment, but memory can make that moment last forever.” — Unknown
- “Once in a while, children come into this world, so special that the angels need these precious ones. To sing in Heaven and light up the world from above.” — Unknown
- “You were taken on angel’s wings as you sweetly and quietly slept. And returned to heaven before we knew that you had even left.” — Unknown
- “Most women say there is no greater pain than to bear a child. I say there is no greater pain than to burry one.” — Unknown
- “There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “The strongest person in the world is a grieving mother that wakes up and keeps going every day.” — Unknown
- “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” — Eskimo Proverb
Quotes From Celebrities Who Have Lost a Baby
- “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, and that it was better for everybody. But after the second one, it was really devastating. Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you—thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.” — Christie Brinkley
- “It was horrendous and something I would not wish on my worst enemy. It’s something that I still haven’t dealt with. I never will get over it. I held my child, and it was really horrific and painful — one of the hardest things that can happen to a person.” — Lily Allen on delivering a stillborn baby
- “I think that’s one of the reasons women don’t tell people when they’ve had a miscarriage—they think it’s their fault. I remember I worried what my in-laws would think, which is so crazy. I thought they’d think their son had married a terrible person. Also, because I made the mistake of telling people as soon as I got pregnant, I then had to tell them the bad news and then I felt like I was burdening them.” — Ali Wong
- “Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.” — Meghan Markle
- “I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them. I don’t say it’s a walk in the park. But what are you going to do? We just try again.” — Courteney Cox
- “Do you want to get into my life? Just because you’ve brought it up, I’ve had three miscarriages, but I know what it’s like to be pregnant.” — Barbara Walters
- “It kind of shook us both and took us into a place that was really dark and difficult. When that happened… I wasn’t able to even talk to anybody about it. That was not easy.” — Mariah Carey
- “I suffered several miscarriages, including two at five months. That’s when you have the clothes already picked out, the nursery is already painted. They ask you do you want a funeral or do you want the cremation. We went through that not once but twice, me and my husband. So our Kevin is a hard-won child. I would’ve loved to have had more children, but I don’t want to test my blessing.” — Wendy Williams
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “When you get blindsided by your body, that betrayal of your body is very hard to overcome.” — Hilarie Burton
Quotes about angel babies
- “A baby gone to Heaven. An Angel picked too soon. A child who’s loved forever, beyond the stars and the moon.” — Unknown
- “We were going to have a baby, but we had an angel instead.” — Unknown
- “Some only dream of angels, I held one in my arms.” — Unknown
- “An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby’s birth. Then whispered as she closed the book, ‘Too beautiful for earth.’” — Unknown
Quotes about rainbow babies
- “If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
- “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.” — The Prophet
- “The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow.” — Unknown
- “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
- “When we lose one blessing, another is most often unexpectedly given in its place.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain; but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.” — Zion Lee
- “For this child, we have prayed.” — 1 Samuel 1:27-28 Next, read up on what you should say to a loved one who has suffered a pregnancy or infant loss.
