Top 32 Absence Of A Father Quotes
#1. I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.
Michael Haneke
#2. Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Jeff Greenfield
#3. I look at myself in the mirror and ask, What are your demands, Reality Boy?
A.S. King
#4. My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#5. I realized that my father's absence is our slippers. In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves.
Abraham Verghese
#6. Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.
Franny Billingsley
#7. A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts
#8. But she is angry. At Etienne for doing so little, at Madame Manec for doing so much, at her father for not being here to help her understand his absence. At her eyes for failing her. At everything and everyone. Who knew love could kill you?
Anthony Doerr
#9. Where did you get those big eyes?
My mother.
And where did you get those lips?
My mother.
And the loneliness?
My mother.
And that broken heart?
My mother.
And the absence, where did you get that?
My father.
Warsan Shire
#10. I felt the weight of my father's failures and the absence of my mother and I wondered who would teach me, or if a guy could learn on his own, what it means to be a man.
Lori Lansens
#11. For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.
Nicole Krauss
#13. I needed no man to empower me. I had my father to thank for that much; his absence in most everyday things had prepared me well enough to stand on my own.
Kerri Maniscalco
#14. There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.
Hisham Matar
#15. My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#16. Ten years. Ten years. Rachel missed her father every day. Not consciously, but his absence was a part of her, like a vine that wraps around a structure, sustains it even as it weakens it.
Laura Lippman
#17. my mother gave me islam.
my father gave me the god of absence.
and here i am.
a religion made of myself.
Nayyirah Waheed
#18. Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
Glenn Gould
#19. Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness, a perfectly natural, unaffected devotion to the old man who deserved so little.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#20. I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.
Karen White
#21. In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.
Rory Kinnear
#22. Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf.
Nelson Rodrigues
#23. I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America ... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world.
John Sculley
#24. If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
Frank Gehry
#25. Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.
Bryan Cranston
#26. Her absence was still so loud and so heavy, I ached with it, feeling hollow and lost. I didn't know how to forget my mother any more than my father knew how he might comfort me.
Paula McLain
#27. But the holiness of Jesus was more than simply the absence of actual sin. It was also a perfect conformity to the will of His Father.
Jerry Bridges
#29. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin
#30. No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#31. My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
Elizabeth Edwards
#32. When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn't even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday.
Jonathan Goldstein
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