Best Mother Died Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.”

Believe Mother Found Gone Died Mother Died

“My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.”

Knows Looks Mother Three Died Cancer Breathing Clock Christmas Day Mother Died

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.”

Littles Book Done Mother Found Son Proud Died Mother Died

Author:Conrad Veidt

“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.”

Made Two Death Mother Expression Months Died Two Months Mother Died

Book:Montana 1948: A Novel

Source: Montana 1948: A Novel

“I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.”

Kind Mother Adults Died Misfits Mother Died

Author:Martha Wainwright

“When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.”

Mother Night Air Goes On Jokes Died Mother Died

Author:Graham Kennedy

“The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.”

Two Play Moments Mother Football Died Saddest Mother Died Colts

Author:Art Donovan

“When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.”

Bigs Mother Courses Father Parent Deals Our Lives Died Giants Big Deal Father Died Titans Mother Died My Father Died

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”

Young Mother Father Sleep Cry Died Tongue Chimneys Mother Tongue Mother Died

Author:William Blake

“I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.”

Long Made Book Bigs Mother Huge Pages Died Photograph Naked Burned Cleaning Edited Cupboards Mother Died Big Book

Author:Marina Abramovic

“When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.”

Mother Our Lives Died Profound Abandoned Mother Died Juncture

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.”

Done Lying Mother Night Father Died Crisis Rounds Kitchen Funeral My Sister Organised Undertaker Mother Died

Author:Stuart Rose

“My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?”

Years Lasts Mother Felt Died Cancer Last Year Helpless Economist Lungs Mother Died Lung Cancer

Author:Andrew Lo

“I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Might Mother Dies Parent Sound Talking Died Starting Albums Revelations Shock Mortality Mother Died

Author:Donald Fagen

“I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Would Be Mother Died Mother Died

Author:Kate Atkinson

“The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.”

Long Left Saws Long Time Died Males Grandmother Orthodox Ritual My Grandmother Judaism Mother Died

Author:Marge Piercy

“I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.”

“My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.”

Causes Natural Lord My Family Died Grandmother My Grandmother Mother Died

Author:Dane Cook

“Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."”

Said Ends Stories Cry Taught Died Moved Grandmother Cried My Grandmother Uselessness Mother Died

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

“I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.”

Feels Believe Hands Mother Universe Heaven Gone Died Raised Don't Believe Uncertainty Mother Died

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.”

Made Done Mother Father Left Gone Promise Died Left Alone Mother Died

Author:Farrah Fawcett

“[My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them.”

Ifs Moments Beautiful Mother Greater Months Photography Died Asking Lips Alright Mother Died Beautiful Moments

Author:Mario Giacomelli

“Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.”

Years Five Died Girlfriend Five Years Grandmother Going Out My Grandmother My Girlfriend Dumped Mother Died

Author:Mike Gordon

“My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.”

Years Littles I Can Remember Mother Understanding My Own Died Folks Mother Died

Author:Will Rogers

“I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.”

Years Art Real Pain Young Mother Father Lost Car Son Ten Years Ago Sick Died Accidents My Son Infant Car Accident Mother Died Real Pain

Author:Dani Shapiro

“My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in L.A. and the Primo Center in Chicago. Kovler Diabetes Center in Chicago.”

Mother Support Awareness Organization Died Raises Silent Cancer Chicago Killers Shelter Diabetes Mother Died Ovarian Cancer

Author:Regina Taylor

“Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.”

Thinking Knows Want Age Wanted Faces Mother Dies Felt Parent Imagine Wall Died Agony Abandonment Lifelong Eleanor Mother Died

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.”

Thinking Knows Age Young Mother Interesting Growing Up Growing Died Neighborhood Immigrants Brooklyn Mother Died

Author:Tad Devine

“Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.”

Matter Mother Born Novel Ten Discovery Died Destructive Mary Anticipate Parables Mother Died Shelley Destructive Power

Author:Laura Mullen

“My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.”

Different Mother Father Streets Crime Died Gang Father Died Mother Died My Father Died Different Roads Committing Crimes

Author:Ice T

“I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.”

Thinking Knows Mother Logic Died Raised Shock Mother Died

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.”

World Mother Three Months Died Grandmother My Grandmother Three Months Mother Died

Author:Michel'le

“I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was 19 and my mother died, and one was when I was 31 and my first child was born. And that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that I think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.”

Thinking World Firsts Kind Children Has Beens Two Mother Term Born Seeing Died Saved Novelists Rebirth Invaluable Seeing The World Mother Died Point Break

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.”

People Thinking Firsts Persons Made Book Ideas Facts Mother Reading Fashion Style Died I Realized Love Of Reading Fashion And Style Mother Died

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.”

Thinking Long Mother Father Parent Secret Discipline Died Glasses Longevity Whisky Father Died Mother Died

Author:Khushwant Singh

“I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.”

Thinking Persons Mother Deals Changed Died Unbearable Life Has Changed Mother Died

Author:Sophia Loren

“When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"”

“I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when I graduated. My mother died very young, and I didn't have any home, so I had to find a way to earn a living. It seemed to me that photography - to the great disappointment, I have to say, of my painting teacher - could offer that. So I went and did a degree in photography, and then after that I could go out and get paid for work. For portraits, things like that.”

Home Mother Study Teacher College Painting Photography Disappointment Mother Died

Author:Stuart Franklin

“After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.”

World Mean Mother Reading Photography Mother Died

Author:Stuart Franklin

“I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my magazine and newspaper scraps, every interview. I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.”

Thinking Real School Community Violence Proud Rap Grandmother My Grandmother Gang Grandma Scrap February My Grandma Mother Died

Author:Killer Mike

“Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.”

Way Giving Long Feelings Mother Giving Up Long Time Died Glad Feel Good Cute Threatening Handful Long Time Ago Festive Mother Died

Author:Anne Lamott

“My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.”

Mother Died Strokes Seventies Mother Died

Author:Doris Lessing

“Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.”

Ifs Years I Can Done Mother Memories Company Adults Died Passed Away Mother Died

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.”

Knows Wells Mother Wife Dad Mets Died My Wife Crush Concerts Mother Died

Author:Gary Numan

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

Ifs Love Giving Persons Has Beens Death Mother Powerful Gone Forever One Thing Mark Died Protection Harry Potter Potters Mother Died Magic Harry Potter Dumbledore Book Lord Voldemort

Author:J. K. Rowling

“When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.”

Ifs Mother Father Social Sorrow Bigger Died Divorced Mother Died Widowhood

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.”

Thinking Heart Kind Mother Turns My Heart Died Steam Mother Died Cucumbers Zucchini

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”

Life I Can Today Mother Died Yesterday Mother Died

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)”

Looks Eye Mother Father Brother Regret Sick Died Shame My Sister Despise Mother Died Father And Brother Look Me In The Eye

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Mother Died Quotes

Related topics

Mother Died Quotes