Loss Of A Parent Quotes

• There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

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  Isabel Allende

  Daughter   Mother   Loss  

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful, some not. Still, we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only 'I am sorry for your loss.' But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?

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  Laura Bush

  Baby   Children   Sorry  

  Laura Bush (2010). “Spoken from the Heart”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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  Anne Sexton

  Death   Daughter   Fathers Day  

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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• That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

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  Maurice Sendak

  Mother   Children   Father  

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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  Abraham Lincoln

  Family   Mothers Day   Thank You  

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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  Samantha Bond

  Loss   Parent   Loss Of A Parent  

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• There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.

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  Isabel Allende

  Daughter   People   Forget  

  Isabel Allende (2015). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

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  Mother Teresa

  Jesus   Children   Pain  

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• Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.

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  Richard Hooker

  Children   Grief   Flower  

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

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