Climbs Quote by Susan Estrich

“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to…

— C.S. Lewis

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

— Clive Barnes

A father's goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother's goodness is deeper than the sea.

— Zahid Abas

A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her…

— Saint John Chrysostom

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.”

— Rasmenia Massoud

“Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats…

— Chinua Achebe

“As he said this, looking at her directly, with no particular challenge in his voice, she believed in him completely, he and his parents,…

— Ian McEwan

a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then…

— Hope Edelman

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

— Hope Edelman