When A Daughter Loses Her Mother Quotes & Sayings

When a mother loses a daughter, she grieves over the future that her daughter will never have, but she can take solace in memories of close-knit days. But when your daughter runs away, it is the fond memories that have been laid to rest; and your daughter's future, alive and well, recedes from you like a wave drawing out to sea. — Amor Towles

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also. — Democritus

But he was an only child and an only son, and for a mother in such a position it is not always easy to accept that another woman will eventually enter her son's life and, if all goes according to plan - the plan being that of the other woman - take him away. This common conflict, so understandable and so poignant, is played out time and time again, and almost always with the same painful result: Mother loses. It is so, of course, if Mother is overt in her attempt to put off the almost inevitable; if she is covert, then she stands a chance, admittedly a remote one, of introducing into her son's mind a germ of doubt that the woman he has chosen might not be the right one for him. That takes skill, and boundless patience, but it is a course fraught with dangers for the relationship between mother and future daughter-in-law, let alone for that between mother and son. — Alexander McCall Smith

Sleep is vastly overrated — Mark Love

When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways. — Hope Edelman

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. — Shinichi Suzuki

Educate every child. — Lailah Gifty Akita

if a parent loses a child, there was no special label for their grief. They were still just a mother or a father, even if they no longer had a son or daughter. That seemed odd. — M.L. Stedman

you are boundless, there is nothing you can't do. — Renee Ahdieh

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon. — Gretchen Rubin

I like you, Mark, and I hope you'll come see me again. You're a nice guy and you have an old soul. I hope we can be friends. — T.A. Webb

One of the good things about cats is that, unlike dogs, they don't come up to you in the street and try to have sex with your leg. — Tom Cox

Most people don't want to work in commercial sex. They have little choice. — Mechai Viravaidya

some women can steal your heart by their beauty, some can steal your mind by their intelligence and others can steal your soul by their presence. But if you meet the one who can steal your everything without doing anything, that's the one made for you.' He — Savi Sharma

The journey through life is important, but what you learn during your journey is more important. — Debasish Mridha

Without the sharing of personal experience, prophetic preaching is impossible. — Brennan Manning

Life just happens, Alice. What makes us special is how we react to it. — Robert McKay

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel ... — Elizabeth Wurtzel