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To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away. -- Maya Rudolph
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. -- Patti Smith
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I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her. -- Kevin Whately
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? -- Maurice Sendak
I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely. -- Mika Brzezinski
A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws. -- Nina Easton
Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles. -- Mariska Hargitay
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. -- Margaret Mahy
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry. -- Andrew Solomon
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy. -- Jessica Valenti
Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter. -- Jennifer McMahon
I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined. -- James Rebhorn
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. -- Natasha Trethewey
As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released. -- James Nesbitt
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother -- Anna Freud
I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman. -- Wes Anderson
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. -- David LaChapelle
the longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ... -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses. -- Ed Seykota
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. -- Andrew Solomon
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. -- Kristin Hannah
Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you canâ??t fight your way out of as easily. -- Ally Condie
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there. -- Damian Lewis

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