30 Beautiful Quotes to Help Comfort Anyone Who's Lost Their Mother

Embarking on the journey of grief is never easy, especially when the person you’ve lost is your mother. While you miss her every day, her absence might be felt the most during the second Sunday in May. If you’re feeling particularly emotional this Mother’s Day, it’s important to know that you’re not alone.

Some of the most celebrated artists, intellectuals and spiritual leaders in the world have experienced the loss of a mother or maternal figure. And while it’s impossible to put into words just how you feel, these loss of mother quotes from them can help you find comfort. These sayings can also be written in a card to a friend who has recently lost their mom or serve as a tribute to your mom anytime of the year.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible- a wound that will never quite heal.

Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.

Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes is is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

My mother is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you ... I could walk in my own garden forever.

No matter what age ... I'll always need you mom.

Mother, you left us beautiful memories, your love is still our guide, although we cannot see you, you're always at our side.

No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

A mother's love is always with her children. Losing a mother is one of the deepest sorrows a heart can know. But her goodness, her caring, and her wisdom live on-like a legacy of love that will always be with you. May that love surround you now and bring you peace.

Mother's hold their children's hands for a while, but their hearts forever.

I truly never learned what the words ‘I miss you’ were until I reached for my mom’s hand and it wasn’t there.

In life, we loved you dearly, in death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a place, no one else will ever fill.

I cried endlessly when you died but I promise, I won't let the tears mar the smiles that you've given me when you were alive.

I know you are listening from above. There's nothing that I value more than your love. No matter where I am or what I'm doing, your memories will always keep me smiling.

The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away.

Whenever I am missing you, I also remember how fortunate I was that you were in my life. I wouldn't trade those moments for the world.

A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.

Mothers never really die, they just keep the house up in the sky, They polish the sun by day and light the stars that shine at night, keep the moonbeams silvery bright and in the heavenly home above they wait to welcome those they love.

The sand of time will never wash away the love that I have for you. Your sweet memory will remain forever in my heart.

Now I know why you always told me to be strong. You knew that one day I would need the strength to bear your loss.

Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard but always near, still loved, still missed, and held so dear.