Loss Of A Parent Quotes

• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Children, Pain

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

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, People, Forget

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

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

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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

  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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• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Mother, Loss

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

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

  Samantha Bond

  Loss, Parent

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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.

  Richard Hooker

  Children, Grief, Flower

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

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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?

  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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• 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?

  Laura Bush

  Baby, Children, Sorry

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

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