Mother’s Day is a celebratory time, but for many, it is an emotional day. There are many reasons that a person might not feel like celebrating the holiday, but it can be a difficult time for someone who has lost their mother.
Seeing all of the social media messages and photos of people spending time with their loved ones can surface the loss, even if it happened years in the past. Whether you have a friend or you lost your mother and it’s an emotional moment for you, Read on and be inspired on what can fit this special Day.
Honoring Memories
Memories with your mother will never fade, ponder and declare these quotes.
1. The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away.
2. Whenever I miss you, I also remember how fortunate I was that you were in my life. I wouldn’t trade those moments for the world.
3. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden.
4. No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
5. I miss the warmth of your gentle hug and the love I felt when my arms were wrapped around you. I miss seeing your beautiful smile and the sound of your voice saying my name. I miss hearing you say, “I love you” and me saying, “ I love you” in return.
6. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
7. 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, leaving a legacy of love that will always be with you. May that love surround you now and bring you peace.
8. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
9. I don’t think of myself as a confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was installed by my mother.
10. My mother had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It’s extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self, such a commitment to the future, and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and us out of the total devastation in her life.
11. There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
12. What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.
13. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
14. A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
15. You were my home, mother. I had no home but you.
16. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.
17. There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible, a wound that will never quite heal.
18. The mother memories closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me throughout my life, and they will still be near when I am old.
19. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
20. Hold dear to your mother for it is a scary and confusing world without her.
Finding Strength
Below are quotes on resilience and inner Strength that can boost your confidence. You are strong.
1. You left us beautiful memories, your love is still on our side. Although we cannot see you, you are always at our side.
2. I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me.
3. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
4. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
5. There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle and a very happy start.
6. No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
7. There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
8. What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
9. 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.
10. When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
11. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk in my garden forever.
12. Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
13. A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
14. You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
15. Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, and how it holds you in place.
16. Mom, I am missing you today but I know that you will always be with me in my heart.
17. Losing a mother is one of the deepest sorrows a heart can know.
18. Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.
19. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
20. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
Embracing Love
You can also celebrate the love that endures beyond loss by these sayings.
1. I’ll celebrate instead of cry, another Mother’s Day is here, and still miss having you near. You were the best mom you could be, and I never once doubted your love for me.
2. I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
3. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
4. Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
5. And then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day.
6. Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
7. But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
8. If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
9. Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn’t magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.
10. I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn’t get past something like that, you got through it.
11. There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible—a wound that will never quite heal.
12. My mom 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.
13. Losing a mother doesn’t happen in a moment. It takes years to appreciate the impact of what’s gone.
14. People who have truly, immensely loved each other are the ones who will handle the loss of a loved one gracefully.
15. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am, I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from my mother
16. If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.
17. You are gone but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, and my heart.
18. You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved.
19. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
20. I guess by now, I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone — you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
Seeking Comfort
Words of comfort for missing your Mom are articulated here.
1. I have an angel watching over me. She is my mom.
2. To my mother in heaven, thank you for always loving me and guiding me. Even though you are no longer here with me I can still feel your love guiding me.
3. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
4. A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
5. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
6. One day we will remember how lucky we were to have known their love, with wonder, not grief.
7. Whenever I miss you, I also remember how fortunate I was that you were in my life. I wouldn’t trade those moments for the world.
8. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
9. Mom, sometimes I wish you could come back, but I don’t want you to suffer again. I know you are with me and I will always love and miss you with all my heart. Until we meet again!
10. Mom, you are the most beautiful memory I kept locked inside my heart.
11. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
12. Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
13. 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.
14. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
15. There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible- a wound that will never quite heal.
16. Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.
17. Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
18. We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
19. It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
20. Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Connecting with Others
If you are a friend, consider sharing experiences and support you had with the mother.
1. And then I heard the angel say, She’s with you every day.
2. The sun, the moon, the wind, and the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found.
3. Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close, and loved me, Thank you, dear.
4. Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.
5. As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.
6. The object is not to forget, but to remember to go on.
7. Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever.
8. Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, and our life will be fuller because we shared your moment.
9. Mother was a never-ending song in our hearts of comfort, happiness, and being. We may forget the word, but we always remember the tune.
10. We cannot forget Mother. She is our bridge. When we needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for us to run across safely.
11. Mom, you are the most beautiful memory we kept locked inside our hearts.
12. Her life was a blessing, her memory is a treasure. You are loved beyond measure.
13. You are gone but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, in my heart.
14. We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
15. Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.
16. The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away.
17. There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
18. No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. We loved Mom.
19. Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts. Our thoughts and prayers are with you forever.
20. What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air.
Looking Forward
Moving forward with hope quotes can be inspiring sayings on this special day.
1. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
2. There is no death, daughter. People only die when we forget them,’ my mother explained shortly before she left me. ‘If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
3. Mom, your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure. Happy Mother’s Day in heaven.
4. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. Missing you this Mother’s Day, Mom.
5. I’ll celebrate instead of cry, another Mother’s Day is here, and I still miss having you near. You were the best mom you could be, and I never once doubted your love for me.
6. It’s an everlasting sadness that you’re no longer here. But every year on Mother’s Day, I like to think you’re near.
7. Another year without you, Mom – it doesn’t get easier, but my love grows stronger. Happy Mother’s Day in heaven.
8. Missing my mom in heaven, this Mother’s Day. The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her.
9. I can’t send a card to my mom this year, but I’ll light a candle in remembrance. Happy Mother’s Day in heaven, mom.
10. If roses grow in heaven, Lord, please pick a bunch for me. Place them in my mother’s arms and tell her they’re from me.
11. I send you rainbows, butterflies, and other signs from heaven throughout the year. This Mother’s Day, I just want to send you all my love.
12. All my life I kept wishing to grow older so I could finally move out and do my own thing. But now I wish I could just turn back time to be a child and hug my mom again.
13. There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible – a wound that will never quite heal.
14. Although I cannot hear her voice or see her smile anymore, my mother walks beside me still, just as she did before.
15. Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
16. Mom, I still see your face before me, your voice I long to hear. I miss and love you dearly – God knows, I wish you were here.
17. Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
18. Mom, could you come back and stay a while? I want to hear your voice. And see your smile. I want to tell you how much I love you. I want to hold you tight and never let you go.
19. Mom sometimes I wish you could come back, but I don’t want you to suffer again. I know you are with me and I will always love and miss you with all my heart. Until we meet again!
20. Time may move on, but there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t miss my mother. The day she died is not just a date on a calendar, it was the day my very existence changed forever.
Conclusion
Sadly, the unfillable space that is left when it comes time for her to leave this world, brings a sort of grief that never quite ends. While nothing can be said that will ever hold a candle to the incredible bond between you and your mother, we hope that touching loss of mother quotes will soothe and console you.
You can also embrace the day with gratitude and reflection by gifting the motherless daughter this personalized birthflower hummingbird ring. You can engrave the dainty ring with up to 5 birth flowers to keep all those you love close and accompany you all the time.
