Father Quote by F. Sionil José

“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living,…

— John Green

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long…

— William Faulkner

“Just because I'm dead doesn't mean I can't have a life.”

— MaryJanice Davidson

“Tried to die, though, but can't. You can't die when you never really lived, can you? It would be redundant.”

— Douglas Clegg

“How could a father wish you were dead, when he himself already died.”

— JohnEgreek

“The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“You can die,” he said again. “And you would be gone. And I would have nothing.” He”

— Elizabeth Hunter

“Yes, it is time I was dead; there is nothing left me to do but to die. I am no good in the world;…

— Honoré de Balzac

“I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.”

— Sara Baume

“I cannot live, if I am already dead.”

— Donna Russo Morin

“But I am old now; my life is older. When I made the choice I made, I did not think it was forever. It…

— Alex Flinn

“I felt like killing my father, but I didn’t want him to die.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh