Causes Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her…

— Anonymous

“Becoming a mother had been many things--often indescribably rewarding, occasionally stupefying, sometimes even terrifying in the intensity of the love she felt for someone…

— Jessica Strawser

“How best to convey that she wasn’t fraught with grief without seeming like a monster? “We’ve reached a point of acceptance with her condition,”…

— Alissa Nutting

“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart any deep…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I had spent the last two weeks consumed with my mother’s condition, at her side for many hours every day, living in a soup…

— Jane Gross

“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear persist.…

— Hope Edelman

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”

— Patricia Gibney

When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear,…

— Lisa See

“Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in…

— Will Schwalbe

“Her mood was suddenly in free fall, a state she knew all too well. A heaviness inside. A hollow loneliness. A need to either…

— Hilary McKay

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she…

— Nicholas Sparks