“Yes, the words, the land of my birth, they console me and compensate, but they would not bring me my mother back.”

— Albert Cohen

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

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Yes, the words, the land of my birth, they console me and compensate, but they would not bring me my mother back." by Albert Cohen?

Albert Cohen 13

Swiss writer 1895–1981

Related quotes

“as my mother told me sticks and stones may break my bones but words don’t hurt me.”

Philip Hammond (1955) British Conservative politician

23 August 2015
2015
Source: http://en.trend.az/iran/politics/2426555.html
Source: http://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/580077--hammond
Source: http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=248893

“"He does not love me for my birth
Nor for my lands so broad and fair;
He loves me for my own true worth,
And that is well," said Lady Clare.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clare

Lady Clare (1842)

“This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Speech at Limerick, Ireland (29 June 1963)
1963

“I watch the boats go by
As the evening colours of the sand
The rain is bringing tears
From my lover's land
I watch the silver stars
melt in love with the sea
I cry to the wind:
– Bring back my lover to me!”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

Song lyrics, Children of the Sun (1969)

“The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don’t see why other women shouldn't do the same.”

Katie Hopkins (1975) English media personality and newspaper columnist

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Romain Gary book Promise at Dawn

Promise at Dawn (1960) as quoted in "Great Pretenders" by Emma Garman in Tablet (31 October 2007) http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/906/great-pretenders/

“Mother and father abandoned me at birth and the author of my life also did not write any worth or merit on the page of destiny.”

Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint

His confessional statements on his own experiences made in Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 49

“My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“If he bring me a rose, a briar rose,
To place in my braided hair,
I shall know there are thorns in life for me
And many a wearying care.
If he bring me a lily pure and pale
And lay it upon my breast,
I shall know that my life will be of peace,
As a bird in its mother's nest.”

Clara Jessup Moore (1824–1899) American writer and philanthropist

The Maiden's Flower Omens

“Taking my life will not compensate for the loss of the others. The State is murdering me.”

John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994) American serial killer and torturer

Final words before execution by lethal injection. Quoted in Kozenczak, Joseph R.; Kozencz, Karen M.; The Chicago Killer: The Hunt for Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy (2003), Xlibris US, pg. 253

“Yes, the words, the land of my birth, they console me and compensate, but they would not bring me my mother back.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Albert Cohen 13

Related quotes

Related topics