Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: fear electricity suspicion mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. —Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph More about this quote Tags: capability walking fitness mother doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: hope mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge More about this quote Tags: love heart mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: life death loss mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: grief loss mother daughter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: love mother motherhood emptiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email