Death-of-a-parent Quote by Anne Fadiman

“A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper.”

— Victoria Schwab

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we’ve accumulated on our life’s journey. It’s written in the memories of those whose lives…

— Justin Young

“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”

— Richard Beck

“Death does that:It makes everyone feel sentimental when in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“I have found the funerals of friends less harrowing than the auctioning off of their property: a unique and loveable nature, already contracted to…

— James Buchan

“This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who’s anyone in children’s literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes…

— Lynn messina

“One’s own dead are more than cadavers, they are place holders for the living. They are a focus, a receptacle, for emotions that no…

— Mary Roach