#infant

I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side. ↗

— Christine O'Keeffe Lafser

#faith #grief #infant-death #miscarriage #sids

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#baby #childe #cynic #cynicism #enemy

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#beginning #burns #end #exists #experience

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#began #career #composer #dreams #i

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#lost #never #those #way #who

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams... ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #faith #light #prayer #praying-mind

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human spirit #ignorance #infantile #knowledge

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#appointments #bringing #conferences #doctors #go

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. ↗

— Martha Beck

#any #because #blindly #built #denial

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#grown #i #infantile #made #me