Dead Mother Quotes

• I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

  Confucius

  Love, Mother, Dream

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• Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Mother, Gone, Body

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• My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

  Raymond E. Feist

  Mother, Uncles, Assassins

  Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra

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• Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
  To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
  You had not seen take amber light alive.

  Allen Tate

  Mother, Swimming, Light

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• She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Mother, Boys, Past

  Sabrina Jeffries (2015). “The Truth About Lord Stoneville”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mother, Children, Father

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• [On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Children, Father

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