Desolation Quote by Francis Thompson

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man,…

— Joanne Harris

The rich emotional tapestry of being a mother, becoming a mother, connects you to your own mother. I didn't realize how much I'd become…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

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

The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her.

— Anonymous

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

— Swami Vivekananda

“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

“The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation,…

— David Bergen

When your love is rejected by others, & when you hate your Life, Just close your eyes, & see, her face who loves you…

— Babloo

“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

A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience…

— M. Russell Ballard

“…hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides