Maternal Loss Quotes

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child.

Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.

I'll shout out to James L. Brooks. 'Terms of Endearment' always makes me cry. Also, 'Stepmom' always makes me cry. I guess, you know, mothers dying. It's a safe bet that I'm going to cry.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered she had breast cancer and passed away the next year. But if she'd had a check two years before, they could have done something about it, they could have saved her.

When my mom passed, it hit us hard. She was the glue that held our family together.

I never felt like I had a mother.

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.