Mom Died Quotes

• My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

  Sarah Polley

  Mom, Cancer, Thinking

  52 Copy quote

• After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mom, Fashion, Real

  54 Copy quote

• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mom died when I was 8.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Mom, Literature, Died

  6 Copy quote

• My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mom, Whole Life, Died

  4 Copy quote

• I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

  Angelina Jolie

  Mom, Children, Cancer

  "Angelina Jolie reveals she had ovaries removed after cancer scare" by Melissa Davey, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2015.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. I had to remake it again and be a new person in the world without my mom. It was a very primal rebirth, that time after my mom died.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mom, Mother, Grieving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman. Suddenly there was another woman sleeping in my mother's bed, and it was very difficult. Their relationship brought up my profound loss, and the truth was that my family would never be the same again.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Source: www.wbur.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• My real mom died when I was born—hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to me, which has never been one of my favorite memories—and Dad married Denise before I’d turned a year. Without even asking my opinion on the matter. Denise and I never really clicked.

  Darynda Jones

  Mom, Dad, Memories

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.54, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Dad, Two

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Mean, Loss

  5 Copy quote