Father Quote by Edward Gorey

“Hearing a crow with no mouth Cry in the deep Darkness of the night, I feel a longing for My father before he was…

— Ikkyu

“It's strange how just the sound of my dad's feet, the murmur of his voice, can change everything. Thing is, for all I know…

— Kevin Waltman

“The words came from him like a sob, a hoarse sound like the death rattle of a dying man; it seemed indeed like the…

— Honoré de Balzac

“My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking,…

— Stefan Zweig

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley

“At home, my mother had known how to suffocate my dad's anger by growing silent, a low, unwavering flame of contempt that sucked all…

— Donna Tartt

“At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.”

— Walker Percy

“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling

“I lie on my bed and slip into a troubled, bereft sleep full of falling women and the barking of dogs always out of…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and…

— Libba Bray

“He fills my thoughts, my dreams, and my nightmares. The memory of him, and his touch, pound on the door to my soul with…

— Andrea Randall