Our parents are our best friends. Whether happy, sad, or tense, our parents are the first person we run to when we want to share our emotions. There is an unspeakable bond present between us that we do not share with anyone else. This bond grows stronger with time as we grow up and understand each other.
Parents are the only people in this world who will love you unconditionally. They pamper us with their affection and give up their lives and dreams to fulfill our wishes. Throughout this journey, there is one thing that we forget. Like everyone else, our parents too will leave us one day!
The children take their parents for granted until it is too late. One of them leaves us out of the blue and by then it is too late to reverse things. No matter how hard you wish to go back in time, to hold their hand one more time, to have that last chat again, to take that one missed call, the time is long gone.
Such is the loss of losing one’s father. It leaves a growing hole inside of you. You feel helpless because there is nothing you can do. The reality cannot be reversed and you do not feel strong enough to reverse it. The strong wave of emotions leaves you speechless while you fight to take even the next breath. At this moment, take some comfort in these quotes and sayings which might help you deal with the great loss that you are feeling.
Quotes To Remember Your Father
Our father is someone we will never forget. No matter how many years go by, how many hours or days, their memory will remain engraved in our hearts forever.
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone
John Steinbeck
I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day
Mitch Albom
I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
Alyson Noel
Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad’s footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever
Bindi Irwin
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it
Clarence Budington Kelland
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim
Vicki Harrison
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was
Anne Sexton
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them
Dorothy L. Sayers
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling in at night. I miss you like hell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child
Jennifer Williamson
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way
Unknown
The pain passes, but the beauty remains
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other
Leo Buscaglia
Death ends a life, not a relationship
Robert Benchley
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them
Leo Tolstoy
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love
Hilary Stanton Zunin
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear
C.S. Lewis
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak
Henry Wordsworth
If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes, then share with me your smile
Santosh Kalwar
When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back
Linda Poindexter
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy
Eskimo Proverb
You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp
Anne Lamott
If I had a single flower
for every time I think about you,
I could walk forever in my gardenClaudia Ghandi
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could ever give another person. He believed in me
Jim Valvano
No matter how old we are, we still need our dads, and wonder how we’ll get by without them
Jennifer Williamson
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too
Harlan Coben
That man is a success – who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children, who has filled his niche and accomplished his task. who leaves the world better than he found it, who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it, who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had
Unknown
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die
Thomas Campbell
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark
Unknown
Missing Father Quotes From A Daughter
Fathers and daughters share a much special bond. It is the most difficult for daughters to recover from a loss of this magnitude. The love that these two share is almost impossible to understand. Fathers treat their daughters like princesses and all their wishes are a command for these loving fathers.
If you are suffering from such a big loss, we hope that these words will be able to provide you with some comfort.
The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life
Adrienne C. Moore
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever
Unknown
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone
Rachel Vincent
Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero
Bindi Irwin
You have been there for me, no matter what bad choices I might have made… you lovingly repaired my broken spirit, helped me plot a new course, and set me free to fly on my own once again. There is no greater love than that. You will always be special to me, and no matter where life takes me, I’ll remember you with love
Marilyn K. Deacon
Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad’s footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever
Bindi Irwin
To her, the name of father was another name for love
Fanny Fern
Father Remembrance Quotes From A Son
Being a loving dad to daughters does not mean that fathers love their sons any less. A father is the first friend of a son. Someone the sons look forward to for advice whatever the need may be. It is an overwhelming pain to lose a father but their memories are what help us get through these tough times.
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He’s no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car
Dierks Bentley
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten
Conrad Hall
The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life – I can’t forget the pain
Frank Lowy
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend
Tiger Woods
Quotes For A Father’s Eulogy
There is no right way to write a eulogy. You can just pen down the words you feel like or if you cannot find the words, you can use one of these quotes. It is okay to borrow words in this tough time, now is not the time to worry about anything else. Indulge yourself in this grief once, so that you do not have to live in it every day.
With God’s love and grace, you shall pass into heaven
Thank you for all the happiness that you have given our family
Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure
Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day, unseen, unheard, but always near
That night as I lay sleeping, you gently slipped away, I never will get over that, I miss you more each day. I tell myself you’re only sleeping and that I’m not alone, for God will come for me one day and take us both back home
Not a day goes by that I don’t think about you. I wish I still had your wisdom to guide me through my everyday
What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness
Every day without you has been hard, but on this day especially I can’t help but think how much I wish you were here with me
I keep thinking about you, Dad, even though it hurts. I’d give anything to relive those memories again
How lucky am I to have had a father so special that I miss you this much? As much as I’m hate not having you around, I’m happy to know you’re at peace
Every day without you has been hard, but on this day especially I can’t help but think how much I wish you were here with me
Dad, I’m so thankful for all the memories we shared together. I only wish you were here to make more
Remembrance Poems For Fathers
My Father, My Father
My father, my father,
I love he,
my father, my father,
made me see,
how beautiful this world really can be.
My father, my father,
said to me,
my daughter my daughter,
come see me,
I won’t be around forever, and I have things that must be.
My father, my father,
don’t die on me.Dakota Ellerton
A Great Soul
A great soul
serves everyone
all the time.
A great soul
never dies.
It brings us together
again and againMaya Angelou
Away
I cannot say and I will not say
That he is dead, he is just away.
With a cheery smile and a wave of hand
He has wandered into an unknown land;
And left us dreaming how very fair
Its needs must be, since he lingers there.
And you-oh you, who the wildest yearn
From the old-time step and the glad return-
Think of him faring on, as dear
In the love of there, as the love of here
Think of him still the same way, I say;
He is not dead, he is just awayJames Whitcomb Riley
There’s A Special Place In My Heart for Him
There’s a special kind of feeling
When I think about you, Dad
It’s a pleasure to remember
All the happy times we’ve had
There’s a special kind of caring
That is meant for you alone
There’s a place somewhere
Within my heart
That only you can own
Missing you always,
Happy Father’s DayUnknown
From a Single Candle
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Love never decreases by being sharedBuddah
Moments Before
Moments before our walk that afternoon,
I realized the path ended too soon.
Not long enough to hold his hand,
this amazing person, this loving man.
Not long enough to engage his eyes
and remember his always brimming with pride.
Not long enough to stand by his side,
as he was by mine after every rough tide.
Not long enough to laugh with him still,
after every bad joke,
after every tough hill.
Not long enough to walk with this man,
who has taught me to be the person I am.
Not long enough as we walked by his wife,
to thank them both for my wonderful life.
In all the walks I’ve taken in my life,
first as a girl and now as a wife,
I’ll remember that walk I took with my father
and always wish it could have been longerKelly Horn
Saying Goodbye
It is never easy to say goodbye to someone you have loved all your life. Saying Goodbye does not mean that you have to let them go, it is only a promise to meet again in another life. Take all your time to process this grief. Take help from your friend and family. Surround yourself with your loved ones because this is the time you need them the most.
Your father may not be physically in this world but he will live in your heart forever. We hope that these words may provide you some comfort, if not a lot, and a little help to face these tough times.
Also Read: Bible Verses About Death To Comfort Deepest Sorrow and Regret
