A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity; it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

—Agatha Christie

love law mother child pity

About Agatha Christie

Portrait of Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel...

More quotations from Agatha Christie

There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.

—Agatha Christie in The Moving Finger

fear questions answers

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

—Agatha Christie

principles rigidity

People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more… and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced

life danger happiness world suffering anger grudge contentment

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

—Agatha Christie in The Secret Adversary

relationships disclosure secrecy

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

—Agatha Christie in The Mysterious Affair at Styles

More quotations tagged with “mother”

There is an emptiness inside of me—a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.

—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters

love mother motherhood emptiness

When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, ready to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways. This isn't pathological. It's normal. It's why you find yourself, at twenty-four, or thirty-five or forty-three, unwrapping a present or walking down an aisle or crossing a busy street, doubled over and missing your mother.

—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters

grief loss mother daughter

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

—Meghan O'Rourke in The Long Goodbye

life death loss mother

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

love heart mother

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

—Abraham Lincoln

History

13 May 2014 Added