Losing A Parent Quotes

“To know you'll never see your father again is to realize one of life's greatest pains.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda

“Losing the buffer zone of my parents meant I was next. I had a chance to craft a lighter finale for my future senior years. I didn’t want the final chapters of my life to be about stuff, and I didn’t want to abandon the responsibility of dealing with it myself.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

“The measurement of mourning: eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“Mother's gone so who can I cry to about you? There’s no one else alive. I have no one to tell me how I was as a child. Was I really one?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“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, A Dark Time in America

“It's impossible to explain this feeling. No words to express the pain of losing the one person who loved you most in the world. No way to describe the devastation in knowing no one will ever love you that way again.
If you've never lost a parent, you won't understand. But Jax does. Because Jax has. I stay strong in the face of everyone else, but for him, I can break. And I do. Over and over, I break.”
― Emily McIntire, Beneath the Stars