Death Quote by Tracy K. Smith

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

— Tracy K. Smith

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

— Faye Dunaway

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted…

— Carol Burnett

After eight years of fighting, and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, my mother lost her battle with cancer. I think about her…

— Leana S. Wen

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father.…

— Peggy Guggenheim

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may…

— Harvey Pekar

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

— Marco Pierre White

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness…

— Mary Schmich

After my mom passed, I wanted to do something to show my love. Playing the role of myself was a unique opportunity to re-live…

— Keyshia Cole

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

— Aaron Carter

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their…

— Rupi Kaur

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