Because the love a mother has for her child is unique and precious, here are 20 quotes about motherly love to read and re-read.
We love them sometimes so much that it's hard to describe the feelings that go through us. A mother … a woman who carries her child for nine months and who could give her life for him. Towards and against the rest of the world, she helps him grow, teaches him to love, advises him, accompanies him and places his happiness after his own. Because that's what a mom does.
The love she has for her child fills her whole heart and she cares for him like the apple of her eye. They are celebrated every year on Mother's Day, but they deserve to be fulfilled every day, at every moment of our life.
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Many writers, poets and essayists have delved into the true meaning of the feeling of maternal love. Magnificent sentences and proverbs emerged from it, the depth of which touches us, again and again, according to our history. Here are 20 beautiful phrases about mother love …
“There is only one deep, sincere, unalterable love, it is maternal love. "Quote from the novel Doctor Servans (1849) by Alexandre Dumas, son, Author.
“Motherly love is the only love that comes close to divine love. "Quote from the Journal intime (May 23, 1872) of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, French-speaking Swiss writer and philosopher.
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“If the first of all ties is love, maternal tenderness is the second. "Quote from the book De la morale naturelle (1788) by Jacques-Henri Meister, Swiss novelist and essayist.
“There is only maternal love which is capable of disinterestedness and which knows how to say: may my son be happy without me, and far from me, provided he is happy and enjoys life to the full. "Quote from the Journal intime (January 2, 1881) by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss Romandian writer and philosopher.
“Motherly love cannot be confined to sentimentality or naivety, as some would like. Maternal love is the least cutesy of feelings. It is above all an act of resistance against the ferocity of the world. "Quote from the book Se perd avec les ombres (2004) by Françoise Lefèvre, French woman of letters and author.
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“A mother’s heart is an abyss at the bottom of which there is always forgiveness. "Quote from the novel The Thirty-Year-Old Woman (1842) by Honoré de Balzac, writer, novelist, playwright, literary critic, art critic, essayist, journalist and printer.
"Maternal love only wants the happiness of the loved one, even without being its source. "Quote from the Journal intime (December 2, 1877) of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, writer and philosopher from French-speaking Switzerland.
"A mother's love for her child knows no law, no mercy, no limits. He could ruthlessly annihilate anything that stood in his way. "Quote from the novel Rendezvous with the Dead (1938) by Agatha Christie, British woman of letters and author.
“Maternal love is not fleeting; he never deceives, and never ends. "Quote from the poem L’amour maternel (1852) by French romantic poet Évariste Boulay-Paty.
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“With maternal love, life gives you at dawn a promise that it never keeps. "Quote from the autobiographical novel The Dawn Promise (1960) by novelist Romain Gary.
“Maternal love is infinitely complex and imperfect. Far from being an instinct, it takes a little miracle for this love to be as it is described to us. "Quote from the philosophical essay XY, De Identity Male (1992) by Elisabeth Badinter, French woman of letters, philosopher, feminist and businesswoman.
"Motherly love is made up of all that is most delicate in love, of all that is most tender in friendship. "Quote from Anne Barratin, French philanthropist and woman of letters (From You to Me – 1892).
“Motherly love is the only happiness that exceeds anything we expected. "Quote from Sophie Gay, French writer, composer and salonnière.
“Motherly love is the highest figure of true love. "Quote from the book La Marvel et l'Occur (1991) by Christian Bobin, French writer and poet.
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“If nothing exceeds the joys of maternal love, nothing also exceeds its pains. "Quote from Les thoughts et maximes (1791) by Jean-Benjamin de Laborde, French composer, historian, patron and general farmer.
"Motherly love, there is nothing more beautiful or greater. "Quote from the book Nous, les Vieux (2006) by Benoît Lacroix, Dominican priest, theologian, philosopher, medievalist and Quebec professor
“Exiled, sensitive, unhappy, we miss our family, and especially the sweetness of maternal love. "Quote from André Maurois, artist, biographer, writer and novelist.
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“A mother is an unalterable source of tenderness where maternal love is irreplaceable. "Quote from Maryanna-singer, Musique-passion, Member of Sacem, Chanteuse-choriste, France.
“God couldn't be everywhere so he created the mother. "Yiddish proverb about motherhood.
“We're so small, the world is so big. What would life be without our mom… ”Quote from Mick Micheyl, French sculptor and singer.