Tom Smothers Quotes

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

I miss my mother very, very much.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

You're never prepared to lose anybody in your family.

Of course when you lose your parent, it's like one chapter in your book of life ends. It's difficult but it's a part of life and you have to accept it.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn't in my life; the only person that took care of me was my mom.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do note weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.