Quotes About Infertility Struggles

Infertility is one of the most challenging struggles one might face in their life. It breaks your heart, crushes your dreams, and ruins your reality. This compilation of quotes about infertility struggles won’t fix your body, but hopefully they will help to restore your head space. Please know that you are not alone in your struggle. There are millions of us that are having similar feelings, emotions and thoughts as you are right now.

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So if you or someone you know is struggling with infertility, hopefully these 55 quotes about infertility can make this season in your/their life that much more bearable.

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Quotes about infertility struggles:

“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett-Henry

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I am learning to trust the journey even when I do not understand it.” — Mila Bron

“It’s going to be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” – Anonymous

“This month would be different. We timed everything perfectly used all the tips and tricks. But every month it’s the same. This same conversation. The same heartbreak. As if it were the 1st” – Anonymous

“Your worth is not determined by your fertility.”– Anonymous

“There’s a unique pain that comes from preparing a place in your heart for a child that never comes.” – David Platt

“And you begin again and sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, but you begin again. Even though your heart is breaking, in time the sun will shine and you will begin again.” – Barry Manilow

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

“You’re a fighter. Think about everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.” – Olivia Benson

After a while, when you’re not successful, you start to associate the word ‘failure’ every time you pee on a stick and it doesn’t come out the right color. What starts out as a dream becomes a project that’s all consuming — everywhere you look, women are pregnant, and every song on the radio seems like it’s all about being pregnant! It becomes a very frustrating, frightening place.” – Brooke Shields (Down Came the Rain )

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; It’s even harder to give up when you know it’s everything you want.” – Anonymous

“Just because someone is blessed to have one child doesn’t mean that secondary infertility is an easy pill to swallow.”- Nikki Parnell

“However motherhood comes to you, it’s a miracle.” — Valerie Harper

 “As long as we are persistent in the pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens on its own.” —Denis Waitley

“Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there’s been endless days of rain.” – Christina Greer 

“I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” – Anonymous

“Infertility often comes with grief and loss. You have to let go of the vision of how long the journey will be and learn to flow and become stronger through the process.” — Halle Tecco

“Infertility is a loss. It’s the loss of a dream. It’s the loss of an assumed future. And, like every loss, it will be grieved.” – Unknown

“Parenting begins the moment you make any conscious effort to care for your own health in preparation for enhancing your child’s conception.” — Carista Luminare-Rosen

 “They don’t get the particular nature of this grief, how it’s less about the loss of a potential child than it is about the endless possibility that there may yet be an actual child.”– Alexandra Kimball

 “Struggling with infertility is like dealing with the five stages of grief every single month. You deny, bargain, get angry, cry and accept. Then you pick yourself back up and do it all over again.”- Unknown

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“Infertility often comes with grief and loss. You have to let go of the vision of how long the journey will be and learn to flow and become stronger through the process.” – Halle Tecco

“There is purpose in your season of waiting.” – Megan Smalley

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”– Japanese Proverb

“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

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.” – Anonymous

“I’m not waiting for the stars to align… just my hormones.”- Unknown

“When you’re struggling with infertility…”Everything happens for a reason” is exactly what you don’t want to hear”-Unknown

“What if infertility isn’t a war but an awakening? What if it’s not about death but about a renaissance?”- Rekha Ramcharan

“Infertility is a disease…just like diabetes or cancer. Telling someone with infertility to “just relax & you will get pregnant” is the same as telling someone with cancer to “Just relax & you will be healed.”- Unknown

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar

“Women often endure infertility, pregnancy, infant loss, miscarriages, and stillbirths in isolation, because while sadness is a socially palatable response to these often life-altering events, rage, frustration, jealousy, and guilt are not.” ― Soraya Chemaly

“…with a baby or without, you are valuable, you are whole, and you matter…” – Unknown

“Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it’s the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially.” — Cindy Margolis

“It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.” – Anonymous

“Even miracles take a little time.” – Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother

“It is one thing, I was discovering, to think, “Maybe I won’t have kids,” and quite another to be told, “Maybe you can’t.” This is how impatience turns to desperation.” ― Peggy Orenstein

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.” —Ina May Gaskin

“Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”― Roy T. Bennett

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Sometimes the struggle is what makes success even sweeter.” – Anonymous

“Your worth is not determined by your fertility.” – Anonymous

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” – The Hunger Games

 “A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.” — Gina Carey

“The struggle is part of the story.” – Anonymous

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” — Suzy Kassem

“Anyone that’s been in the place of wanting another child or wanting a child knows the disappointment, the pain, and the loss that you go through trying and struggling with fertility.” — Nicole Kidman

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” – Dolly Parton 

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”  — Mary Anne Radmacher

“Going through years-long infertility struggles is not for the faint of heart. It can either make or break your marital relationship. Make the determined commitment that no matter what happens, you and your husband were…and are a couple first.” — Cheryl

“You have survived 100% of your worst days. The odds are in your favor.” – Anonymous

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” — Nora Ephron

Struggling with infertility is one of the hardest things to have to cope with. Constantly fighting off the demons of jealousy, anger, bitterness and depression is exhausting! Then you add fertility drugs on top of your already intense emotional state and you become a bona fide lunatic! I wouldn’t wish this struggle on my worst enemy! After years of battling the struggle with infertility myself I will say, although you may not believe it at this time, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. It may not be the light you were originally planning, hoping, or dreaming of but it will be glorious none the less.

I truly hope that these quotes about infertility help to strengthen your emotional, physical, and mental state and show you that you are not alone in your struggle. I will forever be in your corner. Never give up hope.