Alive Quote by Katherine Mansfield

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful…

— Yoko Ono

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

— John Carter Cash

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

— Andrew Solomon

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the…

— Rita Mae Brown

I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know…

— Emily Saliers

No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were…

— Kristin Hannah

Even when I was young, there were times I could tell my mother wasn't handling my father's death well, but she was trying to…

— Wes Moore

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

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

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel…

— George P. Bush

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell…

— Mary Schmich

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening…

— Anne Lamott