Mother Death Quotes

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death.

— Aimee Carter

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

— Anne Sexton

My mother's death was the defining moment of my life.

— Marco Pierre White

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

— Madonna Ciccone

I love my mother to death. I'm pretty much a reflection of her.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

— Jaron Lanier

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

— May Sarton

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence…

— Katherine Mansfield

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult…

— Vanessa Kerry

“My mother’s death was the volcano and I was the ash. It exploded in a mash of pain, blood and tears but…

— Angela L. Hansen

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp.…

— Doug Davidson

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death.…

— O. J. Simpson

My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to…

— Maria Shriver

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been… It was less like losing someone than discovering…

— Nancy Hale

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“But when, a long time later, Felix turned the final page, he knew there was more to this story than names. In…

— Emma Carroll

“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not…

— Salvador Dali

“The one who re-creates from that which has died is always a double-sided archetype. The Creation Mother is always also the Death…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not…

— Salvador Dalí

Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness…I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself…

— Sue Monk Kidd

a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base,…

— Hope Edelman

I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is…

— Anna Quindlen

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The morning after my mother’s death, I was surprised to see the sunrise. From behind the curtain of my bedroom window I…

— James Campion Conway

“Mhisery found comfort in the fact Quinn saw her as a woman. He saw past the tattoos, the piercings, and the attitude.…

— Alex Morgan

“Maman’s death: perhaps it is the one thing in my life that I have not responded to neurotically. My grief has not…

— Roland Barthes

“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he…

— George Orwell

“In the moment between my mother's death and her Return, I stop believing in God.”

— Carrie Ryan

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

— Sarah Addison Allen

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would…

— Rufus Wainwright

“Everything about her shredded my heart because she reminded me too much of my mother, and she reminded me too much of…

— Jessica Park

My mother's death was very painful as it occurred over a period of a week. Watching her die was the hardest thing…

— John Carter Cash

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her…

— Cheryl Strayed

The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So…

— Guru Nanak

“Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after…

— Valerie Martin

“My mother's death changed the alchemy of food. Holidays run together now like ungrooved rivers. I forget what they are for. I…

— Florence Weinberger

Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined.…

— Veronica Roth