Heartfelt Quotes to Honor the Memory of a Lost Father

"You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. And that is–it is what we do with that loss–our ability to transform it into a positive event–that is one of my father's greatest lessons."

- Ted Kennedy, Jr.

"To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches."

- Yann Martel

"The gift my father gave me every day of my life was he believed in me."

- Jim Valvano

"Something that is loved is never lost."

- Toni Morrison

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us."

- Helen Keller

"There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child."

- Jennifer Williamson

"It doesn't matter who my father was; It matters who I remember he was."

- Anne Sexton

"Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was."

- Hebrew Proverb

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"At the blueness of skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them."

- Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer

"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."

- Maya Angelou

"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."

- Antoine Francois Prevost

"To his very last days, dad’s life was instructive. As he aged, he taught us how to grow old with dignity, humor, and kindness—and, when the Good Lord finally called, how to meet Him with courage and with joy in the promise of what lies ahead."

- President George W. Bush

"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."

- John Galsworthy

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."

- Leo Tolstoy

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life."

- Anne Roiphe

"When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I often feel that when someone passes, you now have an angel you can call by name."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

- José N. Harris

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

- C.S. Lewis

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

- John Steinbeck

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

- Jean Paul

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

- Gloria Naylor

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that."