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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways. -- Vanessa Kerry
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Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right. -- Mary Schmich
My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death. -- Brian Wilson
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. -- Albert Claude
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My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No. -- Carol Bartz
My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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 I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. -- Mary Schmich
In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma. -- Bunker Roy
To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam. -- Giada De Laurentiis
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. -- A. R. Rahman
My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave. -- Rufus Wainwright
I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life. -- Robert Crais
My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy. -- Ronnie Dunn
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it. -- Imelda Staunton
Death is the mother of forms. -- Octavio Paz
Death is the mother of beauty. -- Denis Johnson
Even in death, her mother was winning. -- Noorilhuda
My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death. -- Theo Rossi
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. -- Jai Rodriguez
Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe ... -- May Sarton
When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever. -- Mitch Albom
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. -- Kathleen Kennedy
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people. -- Jaron Lanier
When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother. -- Bob Uecker
I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death. -- Phyllis Diller
I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants. -- Edmund Kemper
Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death. -- Larry Watson
Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. -- Hermann Hesse
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. -- William Shenstone
In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame. -- William Shakespeare
Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death. -- Madonna Ciccone
So not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood. -- Elijah
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Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly. -- Wallace Stevens
I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death. -- Barry White
Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. -- Wallace Stevens
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years. -- John Perez
Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death. -- Aimee Carter
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. -- Albert Camus
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. -- Lorna Luft
I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it. -- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. -- Wallace Stevens
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase. -- Clive Barnes
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. -- Anne Sexton
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." -- Rabindranath Tagore
I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.' -- Barry White
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. -- Simone Weil
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. -- Irvin D. Yalom
What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could? -- Saint Francis de Sales
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel. -- Rufus Wainwright
After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone. -- Nancy Hale
...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. -- Edith Wharton
Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever. -- William Ernest Henley
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother. -- Anton Webern
Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify. -- Kim Hyesoon
My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere. -- Linda McCartney

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