Abyss Quote by Ben Okri

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

— Katherine Mansfield

Even in losing my mother, beautiful, amazing awakenings have happened within my family. Of course, losing her is not what you want. The things…

— Tig Notaro

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the…

— Panos Cosmatos

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

— Rita Mae Brown

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

— Clive Barnes

Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the…

— Mariska Hargitay

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

— Lorna Luft

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think…

— Kate Atkinson

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation.…

— Albert Einstein

“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is…

— Meghan O'Rourke

…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me,…

— Cheryl Strayed

I do think about how different my life might have been had my mother not died so young, but I try not to delve…

— John Torode