Losing a mother brings a sorrow that is hard to put in to words. A mother’s love is the first we ever know and so losing her from our lives is heartbreaking.
However, you can find some comfort through words. They help bridge the gap between our grief and the memories we cherish so much.
We can even connect with others who have experienced similar pain through and be reminded host we are not alone.
These quotes will offer comfort, acknowledge the pain of loss and celebrate a mother’s love.
Quotes That Reflect the Depth of Loss
These quotes are all about the emptiness that comes with losing a mother. They put in to words the feelings of sorrow we experience.
- “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Author Unknown
- “The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.” – Elizabeth Bishop
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “A mother is with us always, first in her lifetime, then forever in our memory.” – Author Unknown
- “The loss of a mother can never be replaced, but the love of a mother can never be lost.” – Kelly Flannery
- “There is no one in this world like your mother. She was, and always will be, a beautiful light in the heart of those who knew her.” – Unknown
- “Losing a mother is like losing the one person who always understood you.”
- “No matter how old you are, you never stop needing your mom.”
- “The world feels colder without a mother’s warmth.”
- “A mother’s absence leaves a space that can never be filled.”
- “Grief for a mother never truly fades; it just changes shape.”
Quotes to Bring Comfort
These quotes offer words of comfort and reflection. They will hopefully help you find some peace and be reminded of your mother and everything she brought to your life.
- “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
- “Death cannot kill what never dies.” – William Penn
- “May her memory be a blessing.” – Jewish Proverb
- “Though she is gone, her love and legacy live on through all of us.” – Unknown
- “A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Author Unknown
- “The memory of my mother is wrapped up in the scent of roses and her undying love for her family.” – Unknown
- “She may be gone from sight, but never from your heart.”
- “A mother’s love is eternal, even death cannot take it away.”
- “Her love surrounds you in every cherished memory.”
- “Though she’s not here, her love still guides you.”
- “The bond between a mother and child is unbreakable, even by death.”
Reflecting on a Mother’s Love
The bond between a mother and her child is like nothing else. It’s unique. So these quotes focus that love and bond between a mother and child, even in the face of loss.
- “Her love is like an island in life’s ocean, vast and wide, a peaceful, quiet shelter from the wind, the rain, the tide.” – Unknown
- “My mother taught me everything, except how to live without her.” – Unknown
- “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” – James E. Faust
- “A mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving
- “To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.” – Unknown
- “Even in death, a mother’s love continues to guide us.” – Unknown
- “A mother’s love is the first gift we receive and the one that lasts forever.”
- “Her love was my first home, and though she’s gone, I still live in it.”
- “No love is as pure, as strong, or as endless as a mother’s.”
- “Even in her absence, a mother’s love lingers in every moment of our lives.”
- “A mother’s love doesn’t fade; it echoes through every lesson she taught.”
Words of Hope and Healing
In our darkest times finding hope can be challenging. These quotes may be able to bring some light to the darkness and help with healing.
- “Time is a physician that heals every grief.” – Diphilus
- “We carry our mothers within us, first in the womb, and later in our hearts.” – Author Unknown
- “She is not gone; she is just away.” – James Whitcomb Riley
- “In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams, that is where you and I shall meet.” – Alice Through the Looking Glass
- “The best place to cry is in a mother’s arms.” – Jodi Picoult
- “She would want you to live, to smile, and to carry her love forward.”
- “The pain of loss is real, but so is the love that never dies.”
- “Your mother’s love didn’t end – it transformed into strength within you.”
- “Each day without her is hard, but each memory of her is a gift.”
- “The love she gave you is your anchor through the storm of grief.”
Famous Quotes
- “Losing my mother was a wrenching event in my life. I lost my anchor, and I felt as if I had no one left to help guide me through the turbulent waters.” – Audrey Hepburn
- Abraham Lincoln: “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
- George Washington: “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 her.”
- Queen Victoria: “A mother’s grief is perhaps the most acute the heart can know, and the loss of my own dear mother was a blow from which I never fully recovered.”
- Leo Tolstoy: “When a mother dies, the ties to your homeland are severed forever.”
- Maya Angelou: “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
- Erma Bombeck: “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
- Agatha Christie: “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
- Henry Ward Beecher: “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
- Gandhi: “The memory of my mother… has always been a blessing to me.”
- “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible – a wound that will never quite heal.” – Susan Wiggs
- “A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.” – Christie Watson
Remembering a Mother’s Wisdom
A mother’s wisdom is her legacy to her children. These quotes remind us of the lessons and love our mothers have give us.
- “A mother’s words of wisdom always guide us, like an inner light.” – Unknown
- “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
- “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honoré de Balzac
- “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
- “No matter your age, you always need your mom.” – Unknown
- “Her voice still whispers in my heart, guiding me as she always did.”
- “The lessons she taught me are the legacy I carry forward.”
- “She may not be here, but her wisdom is in every choice I make.”
- “The best way to honor her is to live by the values she held dear.”
- “Her words were my first teacher, and they still guide me every day.”
For Those Who Miss Their Mother
If you are missing your mother then these quotes reflect the yearning and love that is gone.
- “I miss you every second of every day.” – Unknown
- “The day you died, a part of me died with you.” – Unknown
- “My mother: my first love, my last sorrow.” – Unknown
- “No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.” – Christie Watson
- “Missing you comes in waves, and tonight I’m drowning.” – Unknown
- “I miss you in ways words can’t capture.”
- “No matter how much time passes, the longing for you never fades.”
- “I wish I could hear your voice just one more time.”
- “There are days when the absence of you feels unbearable.”
- “You are in my heart, in my dreams, in every quiet moment.”
