Losing A Parent Quotes

• Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.

  Saul Bellow

  Glasses, Years, Parent

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.492, Penguin

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• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Royal Truths, etc".

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• Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Cutting, Parenting

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• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.

  John August

  Running, Dog, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Childhood, Parent

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• I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless murder ... But even as a child, one thing was clear to me: I didn't want the killer, in turn, to be killed. I remember lying in bed and praying, Please, God. Please don't take his life, too. I saw nothing that could be accomplished in the loss of one life being answered with the loss of another.

  Kerry Kennedy

  Children, Pain, Lying

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• Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

  Lauren Miller

  Sorry, Dark, Journey

  "Seth Rogen and Wife, Lauren Miller, Take on Alzheimer's". Interview with Ashley Ross, www.shape.com.

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