Longing for a Child Quotes

I've been broody since the age of 12.

It's excruciating to be away from your child.

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.

The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful, some not. Still, we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only 'I am sorry for your loss.' But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?

The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.