Dead Father Quotes:

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

- Sigmund Freud

source: Sigmund Freud (1997). “Writings on Art and Literature”, p.243, Stanford University Press

topic: Father, Order, Dead Father

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong, Joys Of Childhood, Inspirational Father

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1216, Oxford University Press

topic: Daughter, Father, May, Dead Father

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

- Harmon Killebrew

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Family, Mother, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Step Dad

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Children, Father, Broken, Dead Father

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Father, Grief, Dark, Land And Water, Wavelength

I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can see the machination behind them, like a gear slowly moving. For example, sticking a dead father into the story to explain a character's sadness and bad decisions, or trying to impress myself with my own cleverness.

- Mary J. Miller

topic: Father, Moving, Character, Dead Father

You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.

- Mary J. Miller

topic: Father, Character, Sadness, Dead Father

The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.

- Martin Amis

source: Martin Amis (1973). “The Rachel papers”, Jonathan Cape

topic: Loyalty, Mother, Children, Stepfathers, Antagonism

A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

- Esaias Tegner

source: Esaias Tegnér (1876). “Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance”, p.41

topic: Wise, Father, Son, Dead Father

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.236, Diversion Books

topic: Christian, Mother, Father, Philip, Dead Father

I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.

- Guy Maddin

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Father, Home, Childhood, Dead Father, Childhood Home

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

- James M. Barrie

source: James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Children, Father, Adventure, Dead Father