When Your Father Dies Quotes

#1. I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.

John Mortimer

#2. Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old father; if one dies because one dreams of one's father, what happens to a man who dreams of his mother-in-law?

H. Rider Haggard

#3. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.

Elie Wiesel

#4. A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
He had it all backwards.
Arya the lone wolf, still lives, but the wolves of the pack had been taken and slain and skinned.

George R R Martin

#5. Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

Gerry Spence

#6. When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

Mariella Frostrup

#7. You see something for the first time, you experience something for the first time, you feel something for the first time, it's much harder. I think that it's painful, but at the same time I think it should be the way to experience the world.

Lukas Moodysson

#8. The quiet troubling of the river, and the clean, washed stones, and the green all about, and the trees trying to drown their shadows, and the mountain going up and up behind, there is beautiful it was.

Richard Llewellyn

#9. Julesa: "Are you a fool? Father will have you hung if he realises you've escaped."
Never: "Everyone dies from something.

Ashley Capes

#10. I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it's your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?

Bill Maher

#11. What I most hate is the books and films and all other stuff which all the time end in happy end, do you hate it...
It's better to be in happy and...
- After all I wanted to show the taste of the real world, a injury in father's childhood, then injury when his wife dies...

Deyth Banger

#12. The mechanic says, If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say,
Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Rachel Caine

#14. Demon's coming! Everyone dies. Except for her useless father. He'll live for ever.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. I am a sort of villain, and know other villains best.

Sarah Waters

#16. Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

Richard Ford

#17. If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Samuel Johnson

#18. Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation.

Philip Yancey

#19. Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king."
"Yes."
"Unorthodox.

Tom Stoppard

#20. When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.

Roz Chast

#21. Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away.

John Keble

#22. You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

John Irving

#23. Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

Val Kilmer

#24. I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#25. To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Red Auerbach

#26. What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.

Dinaw Mengestu

#27. When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

Susan Estrich