80+ Mother's Day Quotes for Mother In Heaven – Nostalgic, Grateful and More (2024)

Searching for Mother’s Day quotes for your mother in heaven? We know how hard it can be, so we’ve gathered the best quotes to make her feel loved in heaven.

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Nostalgic Mother’s Day Quotes for Mother In Heaven

1. No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them – Christie Watson
2. A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. – Maya Angelou
3. I never truly learned what the words I miss you meant until I reached for my mom’s hand and it wasn’t there. – Unknown
4. 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. – Unknown
5. There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible – a wound that will never quite heal. – Susan Wiggs
6. Although I cannot hear her voice or see her smile anymore, my mother walks beside me still, just as she did before. – Unknown
7. You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, in my heart. – Nikita Gill
8. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. – J. K. Rowling
9. 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.’ – Isabel Allende
10. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. – Irish Proverb
11. In the heavens above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of ‘Mother.’ – Edgar Allan Poe
12. The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. – Andrew Jackson
13. My mother taught me everything, except how to live without her. – Unknown
14. In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. – Ocean Vuong

Grateful Mother’s Day Quotes for Mother In Heaven

1. My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was. – Lisa Leslie
2. What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
3. Death ends a life, not a relationship. – Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
4. Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that’s how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. – Thornton Wilder
6. They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. – William Penn
7. There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. – Mahatma Gandhi
8. Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. – Eskimo Proverb
9. Mothers never really die, they just keep the house up in the sky, They polish the sun by day and light the stars that shine at night, Keep the moonbeams silvery bright and in the heavenly home above, They wait to welcome those they love. – Helen Steiner Rice
10. There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood. – Elder M. Russell

Inspiring Mother’s Day Quotes for Mother In Heaven

1. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
2. A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. – Honoré de Balzac.
3. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. – George Washington
4. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honoré de Balzac
5. Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. – Robert Browning
6. Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together. – Susan Gale
7. A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo
8. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. – Rudyard Kipling
9. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln. Reflecting on the comforting and guiding force of a mother’s prayers.
10. My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. – Jodi Picoult. An inspiring vision of maternal strength and grace.
11. The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. – Benjamin Disraeli
12. We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden. – Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire
13. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. – Anna Taylor
14. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller

Short Mother’s Day Quotes for Mother In Heaven

1. You were my home, mother. I had no home but you. – Janet Fitch
2. A mother’s love endures through all. – Washington Irving
3. A mother’s love is a fortress that we never outgrow. – Unknown
4. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi
5. Mom, while you may be in heaven, you’re always in my heart. – Unknown
6. Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II
7. A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. – Unknown
8. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell
9. Today she dances with angels. – Unknown
10. Though she be but little, she is fierce.– William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
11. You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you. – Janet Fitch
12. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln
13. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. – James E. Faust

Christian Mother’s Day Quotes for Mother In Heaven

1. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. – Psalm 34:18
2. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. – Proverbs 31:28
3. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. – 3 John 1:4
4. As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. – Isaiah 66:13
5. Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. – Proverbs 31:30
6. Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate. – Proverbs 31:31
7. Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. – Proverbs 31:25
8. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. – Psalm 34:18
9. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. – John 14:16
10. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. – Matthew 5:4
11. A mother’s love is a symbol of God’s love for us, for it is patient, kind, and knows no bounds. – Corinthians 13:4-7
12. He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord! – Psalm 113:9
13. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. – Psalm 139:13-14
14. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. – Proverbs 22:6
15. Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. – Isaiah 49:15
16. The greatest among you shall be your servant. – Matthew 23:11

Mother’s Day Quotes for Mother In Heaven Who Passed Recently

1. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran
2. The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
3. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – From an Irish headstone
4. Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. – Unknown
5. Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson
6. There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world. – Unknown
7. A mother is with us always, first in her lifetime, then forever in our memory. – Unknown
8. It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember. – Unknown
9. The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms. – Jodi Picoult, House Rules
10. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for that sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile even if she was sad. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mother’s Day Quotes for Mother In Heaven Who Passed Long Ago

1. We never truly lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. – Paulo Coelho
2. Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. – From the television show The Wonder Years
3. The memories we make with our family is everything. – Candace Cameron Bure
4. There is no expiration date on the love between a mother and her child. – Jennifer Williamson
5. You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. – Nigella Lawson
6. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. – Alphonse de Lamartine
7. My mother 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. – Graycie Harmon
8. Moms are the people who know us the best and love us the most. – Unknown
9. The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. – Elaine Heffner
10. A mother’s love is alive forever. In the lessons she taught, the patience she gave, and in the hearts of the children she raised. – Unknown
11. The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother. – St. Therese of Lisieux

Conclusion

Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate and these messages are designed to fill her heart with joy, even in heaven. Just remember to cherish and appreciate the loved ones who are still by your side.

Seth Cannon

Seth is an English-major turned stand-up comedian. When he’s not touring comedy clubs, he loves putting his creativity to use writing puns and card greetings for all occasions (not just funny ones). Many of his punny works can be found in a card store near you.