A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
Interpretation
A mother is essential to our existence and emotional world; her absence is profoundly felt.
This quote emphasizes the pivotal role of a mother in our lives, portraying her as both the physical source of our being and a central figure in our emotional landscape. The analogy of waking up without the sky underscores the depth of loss experienced in her absence, highlighting how integral she is to our perception of the world.
In practice
This quote could be used in a eulogy to honor a mother's memory.
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.
I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.
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