Is there anything worse than having a great father? It is so hard to say goodbye. It is hard to say goodbye to him each day.
Of course, it’s true what ‘they’ say – time certainly helps. It does get easier over time, but you have to learn how to adapt and live in your new normal.
I still recall the time my family was preparing. the eulogy for my much-loved father’s funeral service. We were in shock at the beginning. ofGrief. I am completely clueless about it. the rocky road of the future of grief of all of us. We searched for the best quotes, after much fumbling with our preparations.
Not only for the eulogy and other such things, but for us to make some sense personally it was amazing what had happened. Even a small amount of words like these can help. I trust they will do the same for you.
Here are some more quotes on the subject of losing and missing your father.
“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”
Mitch Albom
“Grief is like the ocean; it is a wave that flows and ebbs. Sometimes the water can be calm or overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
Vicki Harrison
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“Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad’s footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.”
Bindi Irwin
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.” Dorothy L. Sayers
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind, lies on the paths of men.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world in which I am constantly walking. daytime and nighttime. I miss you like hell.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
- Pierre Auguste Renoir
- “There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child.”
- Jennifer Williamson
- “DeathIt is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
Leo Buscaglia
“AFather is not an anchor that holds us back or a sail that takes us there. He is a beacon of light whose love shines through. the way.”
“The risk of love is loss. the price of loss is grief. the pain of grief is just a shadow compared to the pain of never risking love.”
- Hilary Stanton Zunin
- “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
- Robert Bench
- “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S. Lewis
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can cause great sorrow. But, this is the same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.”
- Eskimo Proverb
- “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
- Henry Wordsworth
- “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
- Linda Poindexter
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that it’s impossible to get over. the loss of our beloved. However, this is not the only thing. the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. You persevere. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when theYou learn to dance when the weather is cold the limp.”
Anne Lamott
“If I can see the pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see the joy in your eyes, then share with me a smile.”
Santosh Kalwar
My hope is that you will find some comfort during this difficult time, and allow you to think back on a father who was very much missed. Take care. Take care of your family members and yourself.