Grief Quotes For Loss of A Child:

The morning glory blooms but for an hour   
and yet it differs not at heart
from the giant pine
that lives for a thousand years
— Teitoku Matsunaga, Japanese Poet

Below are grief quotes for loss of a child to help you feel some comfort, connected to those too that know loss, and help you in this difficult process.

Grief Quotes Focused On The Importance of  Expressing Your Feelings 

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. – – Ann Grant

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us. – –  Helen Keller

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? — Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. —Martha Beck

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Individual Responses to Grief 

Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.  — Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and author

Sweet little flower of heavenly birth, you were too fair to bloom on earth. — Author 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, American president

Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?  — William Blake

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up! — Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Grief is the price we pay for love  —- Queen Elizabeth II

The Importance and Rewards of Grieving 

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind — Marcel Proust

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”. — Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933)

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains”. –Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

“Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have… The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits”.– Shneidman (1980)

“The grief within me has its own heartbeat. It has its own life, its own song. Part of me wants to resist the rhythms of my grief, yet as I surrender to the song, I learn to listen deep within myself” ~ Alan Wolfelt

“Tears are words that need to be written” ~ Paulo Coelho

“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” ~ Gandhi

“Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger……..It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.” ~ Maureen Hunter

“You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind….” ~ Kahlil Gibran

“And if I go, whilst you’re still here…know that I live on, vibrating to a different measure behind a thin veil…. ”     ~ Emily Dickinson

“So long as we live they too shall live and love for they are a part of us, as we remember them.” ~ Gates of Prayer

“When grief recedes, grief is like a cloud”   Tom Golden

“Grief is a tidal wave that over takes you,
smashes down upon you with unimaginable force,
sweeps you up into its darkness,
where you tumble and crash against unidentifiable surfaces,
only to be thrown out on an unknown beach, bruised, reshaped…” Stephanie Ericsson

“Grief is the price we pay for love. Every mother dreads that cost.”   Sarah Sands

“Grief is like a tsunami”  Jemma Redgrave

“Grief is like the ocean; it’s deep and dark and bigger than all of us. And pain is like a thief in the night. Quiet. Persistent. Unfair. Diminished by time and faith and love.” One Tree Hill

“Let me come in where you are weeping, friend and let me take your hand. I who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand” ~ Grace Noll Crowell

“When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight.” ~ John O’Donohue

Movie Quotes:

“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

Sibling Quotes:

To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.” ~Clara Ortega