Quotes About Childlessness

Not having children derives not from dislike, but from love too great to bring them into this world, too limited, too vain, too cruel.

Most keep their condition secret from all but a few close friends. Interestingly, many of them say the thing they regret most is not their inability to have children but the lack of menstruation, the event they see as a monthly voucher of femaleness.

Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.

But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

If a man marries his brotherís wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.

So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a wife, but died childless.