Losing Your Parent Quotes

#1. Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?

Diane Duane

#2. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

Jodi Picoult

#3. We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

Hari Sreenivasan

#4. Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.

Karen Armstrong

#5. I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Laura Linney

#6. She kissed my cheek and pulled away quickly, heading off into the crowd of people, leaving me standing in the middle of the kitchen with a freaking boner as usual.

Kirsty Moseley

#7. And I exist, I roam but I don't sleep anymore
I cry, laugh, scream but I don't remember why.

Katerina Gogou

#8. I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

C. Walton Lillehei

#9. This is the time to make those hard decisions and let things go. Ask yourself, "Is this item part of my past or my future?" If it's sentimental, take a picture and let it go! Save the memory in a picture, but not on your shelf.

Marcia Ramsland

#10. 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

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Luke Hohmann

#12. Losing your parent is unlike anything.

Jenny Lewis

#13. After all, there is nothing quite like losing a parent to knock the childishness out of a person's spirit.

Cat Hellisen

#14. Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth.

John Hopkins

#15. No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line.

Dennis Prager

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

Paul Kantner

#19. Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

Eric Shanteau

#20. It is a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize.

Jodi Picoult

#21. Ricky tasted something he hadn't experienced since childhood: the panic of losing the hand of a guardian. In this case the lost parent was his sanity. Somewhere

Clive Barker

#22. The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Shiv Khera

#23. Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#24. Losing a parent is a hard thing ... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

Wayne Swan

#25. women are not thinking about 'having it all,' they're worried about losing it all - their jobs, their children's health, their families' financial stability - because of the regular conflicts that arise between being a good employee and a responsible parent."34

Sheryl Sandberg

#26. 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

#27. Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.

Jennifer Donnelly