100+ Inspirational Quotes on the Death of a Mother: Comfort and Healing Through Words

"I guess by now, I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone — you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence."

- Alyson Noël

"You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly — that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp."

- Anne Lamott

"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."

- Mitch Albom

"Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. ROWLING

"I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought, and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

"There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible — a wound that will never quite heal."

- Susan Wiggs

"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"My mother is in heaven and she still sees me through her eyes … It’s like God gave me a little piece of heaven on Earth with my mom."

- Rihanna

"I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it."

- Jodi Picoult

"Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy."

- Jandy Nelson

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

- Abraham Lincoln

"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."

- Maya Angelou

"Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity."

- Terri Guillemets

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."

- Matthew 5:4

"Whenever I am missing you, I also remember how fortunate I was that you were in my life. I wouldn't trade those moments for the world."

- Cindy Adkins

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

- C.S. Lewis

"Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life."

- Anne Roiphe

"I’m not afraid of heaven. I believe in it the way I believe that my mother is with me, hovering over me, even though she’s no longer alive."

- Leonard Cohen

"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

- Rumi

"Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms."

- Paulo Coelho

"I have definitely seen the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows. You don’t know how strong you are until you are placed in that kind of moment."

- Jennifer Hudson

"I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely."

- Renita Weems

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am, I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from my mother."

- George Washington

"You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, and in my heart."

- Nikita Gill

"I chose not to lose my mom, and instead to gain an angel. In my mind, my heart, and my life, she is still completely present to this day — and as wise, compassionate and stubborn as ever"

- Kevin Hart

"We cannot think our way out of grief. We must feel our way out of grief."

- Angie Corbett-Kuiper

"I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It’s like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it’s there and keep falling in. After a while, it’s still there, but you learn to walk ‘round it."

- Rachel Joyce

"She is still everywhere with us. She is the air we breathe, she occupies our every thought and fills each moment of our lives … We carry her within ourselves and will never be able to free ourselves from this eternal bond."

- Jacques Prévert

"Losing a mother doesn’t happen in a moment. It takes years to appreciate the impact of what’s gone."

- Lisa-Jo Baker

"My mother was always available to me. Even when I didn’t see her, she wasn’t gone."

- Brooke Shields

"But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin."

- Mitch Albom

"You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you."

- Janet Fitch

"A mother loves without expecting anything in return. She gives without expecting anyone to be grateful for it. … All her life she wakes up every morning and does everything all over again."

- Debasish Mridha

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A.A. Milne

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"My mother is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may, sometimes, forget the words, but I always remember the tune."

- Graycie Harmon

"Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."

- W.S. Merwin

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

- Thomas Campbell

"You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be."

- Nigella Lawson

"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."

- Sarah Dessen

"Mom, I am missing you today but I know that you will always be with me in my heart."

- Karen Kostyla

"There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible- a wound that will never quite heal."

- Susan Wiggs

"No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply."

- Billy Graham

"Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."

- Vicki Harrison

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them."

- James O’Barr

"Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning."

- Carrie Jones

"Every time I see an angel, I think of her … I know she is an angel."

- Nicolas Cage

"I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me."

- Lisa Goich-Andreadis

"The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital, I have made my way."

- Andrew Jackson

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk in my own garden forever."

- Alfred Tennyson

"The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small, gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life. And when I am very old, they will still be near."

- Margaret Sanger

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"One day we will remember how lucky we were to have known their love, with wonder, not grief."

- Elizabeth Postle

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

- José N. Harris

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

- Havelock Ellis

"If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything."

- Patsy Cline

"Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy."

- Eskimo legend

"No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them."

- Christie Watson

"There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle and a very happy start."

- Shel Silverstein

"In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ."

- Ocean Vuong

"Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."

- from The Wonder Years

"Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure."

- Unknown

"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

"We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love."

"A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go."

"Losing a mother is one of the deepest sorrows a heart can know."

"And then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day.'"

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."