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Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.