Parental Sorrow Quotes

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

No mother should lose her child.

In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. You will either rejoice and boast of their accomplishments or you will weep, head in hands, bereft and forlorn, if they become a disappointment or an embarrassment to you.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

There's nothing more heart-breaking than watching your children suffer.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

When you have kids, you never think of burying your own child.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

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.

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.