Losing A Parent Quotes:

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

source: Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.492, Penguin

topic: Glasses, Years, Parent, Losing A Parent

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Family, Sarcastic, Favourite Book, Carelessness

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: "Royal Truths, etc".

topic: Love, Inspirational, Family, Great Parents, Losing A Parent

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

- Peter Ustinov

topic: Children, Cutting, Parenting, Losing A Parent, Tooth Fairy

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

topic: Thinking, People, Parent, Losing A Parent, Complication

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

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Running, Dog, Thinking, Losing A Parent

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

- Louise Penny

topic: Book, Parent, Childhood, Mr Spock, Losing A Parent

I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless murder ... But even as a child, one thing was clear to me: I didn't want the killer, in turn, to be killed. I remember lying in bed and praying, Please, God. Please don't take his life, too. I saw nothing that could be accomplished in the loss of one life being answered with the loss of another.

- Kerry Kennedy

source: Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.683, Pan Macmillan

topic: Pain, Children, Lying, Losing A Parent

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

source: "Seth Rogen and Wife, Lauren Miller, Take on Alzheimer's". Interview with Ashley Ross, www.shape.com.

topic: Sorry, Dark, Journey, Losing A Parent, Four Years