Bizarre Quote by Hisham Matar

“Frequently I go to conferences and listen to speakers decry the absent father as somehow a new phenomenon. Though their recriminations against absent or…

— Michael Gurian

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

— Anonymous

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.

— Stephen Rodrick

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

— Jonathan Majors

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a…

— Michael Haneke

People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and…

— Bennett Miller

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of…

— Samuel Butler

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

— Mary Mapes Dodge

I guess it's rare, but even though I come from a broken home, I still believe I have the most amazing father.

— Tony Bellew

It's fairly traumatizing for a young man to lose what you thought was a father figure.

— Ruben Gallego

A man who abandoned his children will never get a chance to feel the real essence of being a father...

— Tanya Grace