Children Quote by Namie Amuro

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

— Cheryl Strayed

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

— Peaches Geldof

What a difficult time that must have been for my mother, only twenty-four years old, grieving for her mother, giving birth to her own…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

— Susie Bright

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

— Deborah Sampson

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken…

— Quincy Jones

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

— Marcel Carne

Sometimes I feel like I've forgotten how to be the mom after the death of my son.

— Jill Biden

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

— Andrew Solomon

I lost my mom when I was young.

— Ad-Rock

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to…

— Natasha Trethewey

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I…

— Susan Smith