Consuming Quote by Rufus Wainwright

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

— Lorna Luft

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

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

— Cheryl Strayed

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

— Rosemary Mahoney

My father died and left me, my poor mother done the best that she could.

— Robert Johnson

As a mother I had to sacrifice a lot due to the pressing demands of my career.

— Rituparna Sengupta

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out…

— Patti Smith

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

All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during…

— Kristin Chenoweth

My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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