Missing your mom is natural. When she passed away, even when you’ve just been apart for a period of time, you miss her.
That’s because moms are so special. They provide you with love, are there when you need them most and have that knack of making everything alright.
So when they’re gone we all think about how much we miss our moms.
But it can help to hold on to those beloved memories we have of our mothers. Remembering the good times can’t bring her back but it can ease the pain and remind us of how lucky we were to have such an incredible mom.
Hopefully these messages and quotes about missing your mom we’ve collected will give you some comfort when you’re feeling sad, be part of a moving tribute or memorial for your mom or just help you to remember how special she really was.
I Miss you Mom Quotes
These famous quotes are about missing your mom and everting she meant to you.
Use them for comfort when missing her and to remember just how amazing she really was.
- “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
- “No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them” – Christie Watson
- “Mother’s hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever” – Unknown
- “No matter what age… I’ll always need you mom” – Unknown
- “I truly never learned what the words ‘I miss you’ were until I reached for my mom’s hand and it wasn’t there” – Unknown
- “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
- “A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go” – Unknown
- “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
- “Mother, you left us beautiful memories, your love is still our guide, although we cannot see you, you’re always at our side” – Unknown
- “I cried endlessly when you died but I promise, I won’t let the tears mar the smiles that you’ve given me when you were alive” – Unknown
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Miss you Mom Messages
These messages are ideal for paying tribute to your passed mother or acknowledging how much you miss her on the anniversary of her death.
- “I truly never learned what the words ‘I miss you’ were until I reached for my mom’s hand and it wasn’t there” – Unknown
- “Sadness is not being able to give your mom a hug” – Unknown
- To my mother in heaven, thank you for always loving me and guiding me. Even though you are no longer here with me I can still feel your love guiding me. You are always in my heart. I love you and miss you dearly
- Mom, nothing has been the same since I lost you. I miss you more than words can ever say
- “In life, we loved you dearly, in death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a place, no one else will ever fill” – Unknown
- I wish heaven had visiting hours so I could see and speak to my mom again. I miss her so much
- “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” – Unknown
- “Mom sometimes I wish you could come back, but I don’t want you to suffer again. I know you are with me and I will always love and miss you with all my heart. Until we meet again!” – Unknown
- I’ll never forget all the good things you’ve helped me experience and I’ll never forget all the advice you’ve given me in life. Really miss you mom
- “Mother, you left us beautiful memories, your love is still our guide, although we cannot see you, you’re always at our side” – Unknown
- I miss you so much mom. I would give anything just to hug you or to hear you say my name again
- There is no worse feeling than missing your mother and not being able to see her. It’s a pain that never leaves you
- “Mom, could you come back and stay a while. I want to hear your voice. And see your smile. I want to tell you how much I love you. I want to hold you tight and never let you go” – Unknown
- Mom sometimes I wish you could come back, but I don’t want you to suffer again. I know you are with me and I will always love and miss you with all my heart. Until we meet again!
- Time may move on, but there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t miss my mother. The day she died is not just a date on a calendar, it was the day my very existence changed forever
- It wasn’t until I lost my mom that I fully understand the phrase ‘I miss you’. Now it makes more sense than anything else in this world and I find myself saying it daily
- There is nothing that can prepare you for your mom not being there. To find one day that the person you’ve always turned and looked to is no longer with you is both heartbreaking and terrifying. And you miss her like no one else
- You are always in my heart mom. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been gone you will forever be a part of me
- “I wish I had the power to take back every pain, worry, and hurt that I ever gave you. I wish that I could just undo all the moments that made you blue. I miss you mom” – Unknown
- Life might go on but it is never the same. I will miss you forever and be thankful for every wonderful moment I had with you mom
Missing Mom Quote From Daughter
- You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be” – Nigella Lawson
- “There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible – a wound that will never quite heal” – Susan Wiggs
- “Mothers never really die, they just keep the house up in the sky. They polish the sun by day and light the stars that shine at night, keep the moonbeams silvery bright and in the heavenly home above they wait to welcome those they love” – Helen Steiner Rice
- “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 miss the warmth of your gentle hug and the love I felt when my arms were wrapped around you. I miss seeing your beautiful smile and the sound of your voice saying my name. I miss hearing you say, ‘I love you’ and me saying, ‘I love you’ in return” – Millie P. Lorenz
- “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
- “You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you” – Janet Fitch
- “I miss saying ‘Mom’ out loud. I miss not being able to find that special card for you and then having found it, writing ‘To Mom’ on it for yet another cherished Mother’s Day” – Millie P. Lorenz
- “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 Noel
- “Mom, I am missing you today but I know that you will always be with me in my heart… I am who I am because of your loving hands. I have my sweet and compassionate soul from watching you and your generosity and kindness to others. I see the world full of wonder because of your imagination. I’ve learned to never give up seeing your drive and perseverance… I love you always and forever..” – Karen Kostyla
Missing Mom Quotes From Son
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother” – Abraham Lincoln
- “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
- “But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone” – Mitch Albom
- “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life” – Abraham Lincoln
- “My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation” – Mark Twain
- “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest” – Irish Proverb
- “Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother” – Gregory Nunn
- “A mother’s love’s a blessing, no matter where you roam, keep her while she’s living, you’ll miss her when she’s gone. Love her as in childhood, though feeble, old and grey, for you’ll never miss a mother’s love, till she’s buried beneath the clay” – Thomas P. Keenan
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother” – Abraham Lincoln
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk in my own garden forever” – Alfred Tennyson
Whether you’ve just recently lost your mother or she has been gone a long time we still miss our moms the same.
So finding ways to cope with the pain and keeping her memory alive is important. Hopefully these missing you mom quotes and messages will have helped bring some peace and given you the chance to show how much you loved and miss your mom.
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