Filial Love Quotes

“Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“It’s true that, in Vietnamese, we rarely say ‘I love you,’ and when we do, it is almost always in English. Care and love, for us, are pronounced clearest through service.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Love – whether romantic,
Or filial,
Is as selfish as those mountains.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, the lost mint taste

“She might have crawled inside her father and tucked up within his heart, for how much she loved him.”
― Susan Fletcher