Birth Quote by Lorna Luft

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

— Meghan O'Rourke

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

— Koichi Tanaka

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

— Jack Whitehall

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

— Marco Pierre White

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

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a…

— John Green

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my…

— Cheryl Strayed

My most defining moment was the death of my mother.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

My mother died on my birthday.

— Shannon Briggs

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

— William Lilly

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that…

— Spalding Gray

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

— Rufus Wainwright