“My mother whom I adored, secretly wasted away and died of grief…; her death…marked me for life.”

— Christian Dior

Source: Marie France Pochna "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New", p. 48

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French fashion designer 1905–1957

Albert Cohen (1895–1981) Swiss writer

Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)

“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Hegemon

Source: Shadow of the Hegemon

“My mother, as much as I can remember from my early boyhood, and from what I heard of her after her death, was of a most lively temper, and possessed of a good and noble heart, but a little inclined to sensibility; her greatest pleasure was to see everyone happy about her. She loved me dearly and spoilt me. I adored her. Alas, I lost her when only a little boy, and never shall I efface from my memory the day of her death and funeral.”

Albrecht Thaer (1752–1828) German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory for plant nutrition

My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786

“Mothers always sacrifice and wastes her life for their children. that's why I ask her to participate even more than youth.”

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt

Remarks by el-Sisi asking Egyptian women to go vote on the referendum during a cultural symposium organized by MOD Department of Moral Affairs on 11 January 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w50oWry07E.
2014

“But I would adore that thief who is my mother.”

Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal

The Thief's Journal (1949)

“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”

Clifford Odets (1906–1963) Playwright, screenwriter, director, actor

“I went to school like other children until I was about 11 or 12 years of age, when the greatest misfortune of my life occurred, namely — the death of my mother, peace to her, she was a good mother to me; after she died my father broke up his home and went to lodgings; unfortunately for me he married his landlady; henceforth I never had one moment's comfort, she having children of her own, and I not being so handsome as they, together with my deformity, she was the means of making my life a perfect misery; lame and deformed as I was, I ran, or rather walked away from home two or three times, but suppose father had some spark of parental feeling left, so he induced me to return home again.”

Joseph Merrick (1862–1890) English man with severe deformities

Autobiographical sideshow pamphlet

“Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”

Dave Pelzer (1960) American author

Source: A Child Called "It"

“In the dark womb where I began
My mother's life made me a man.
Through all the months of human birth
Her beauty fed my common earth.
I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir,
But through the death of some of her.”

John Masefield (1878–1967) English poet and writer

Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"

“I have no idea what the other will be like, but this death suits me well! If my adorable Isolde were to go on being the death of me in this fashion I would woo death everlasting!”

Gottfried von Straßburg book Tristan

Ine weiz, wie jener werden sol;
dirre tôt der tuot mir wol.
solte diu wunneclîche Isôt
iemer alsus sî mîn tôt,
sô wolte ich gerne werben
umbe ein êweclîchez sterben.
Source: Tristan, Line 12497

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