The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth.… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
There was something raw and intense about Simba tugging on his dead father's ear. — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“ Tree I dreamt you invisible majesty hovering above the face of all things. Rooted in the pain of ash, mere man,… — Salvador Espriu Copy Share Image
“What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many. The people who once lived here are called the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Osiris, to go directly to the important part of this, was not a "dying god," not "life caught in the spell of… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“Edward finds Elinor crying for her dead father, offers her his handkerchief and their love story commences. Ang [Lee] very anxious that… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“Oh, I believe you. It’s too ridiculous not to be true. It’s just that each time my world gets stranger, I think:… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I watched him as he lined up the ships in bottles on his deck, bringing them over from the shelves where they… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Today a child told Santa Ken that he wanted his dead father back and a complete set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I acquired expensive habits and affected manners. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. But… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Dead fathers and exasperating roommates and questionable eulogies don’t feel so awful when the night sky is clear enough to literally feel… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Hunched down in the small bright room Nel waited. Waited for the oldest cry. A scream not for others, not in sympathy… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
“But there have been times since, in my manhood, many times there have been, when I have thought, Is it possible, among… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“The Dead Father was slaying, in a grove of music and musicians. First he slew a harpist and then a performer upon… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“The Greek historian Herodotus, writing over two thousand years ago, produced one of the first descriptions of one culture getting worked up… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
