30 Quotes for Healing from an Absent Father
When we are kids, our parents are really important in our lives. If one of them is not around, it can have a big impact on who we become. Even though many kids may not want to admit it, it’s really painful and leaves a lasting mark.
Feeling hurt because of an absent father is something that needs care and kindness to heal. The first step is to face your pain directly. It might be uncomfortable, but I can tell you from experience that it’s not good to hide your pain and pretend it’s not there.
So how do we face our pain? It can be hard because there’s no easy way to start. I made a list of quotes about absent fathers for you to read. See which ones make you feel something and which ones feel really relatable. Allow yourself to feel your emotions when you read them. Then you can start your journey towards healing.
#1
“One day, you’ll regret not being there. You’ll regret the birthdays and holidays missed. You’ll regret not watching them grow up and being in their lives. You’ll regret everything and by then, it will be too late”
#2
“Just remember, when you are ignoring her, you are teaching her to live without you.”
#3
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”
Barbara Johnson
#4
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
– Kent Nerburn
#5
“Don’t forgive him. Forgive yourself for believing there is something lacking in you because he wasn’t there.”
– Iyanla Vanzant
#6
“Hey “dad” I did it without you.”
– Anonymous
#7
“My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads are supposed to do: be there.”
– Max Lucado
#8
“An absent father is like a ghost that lives in the back of your mind.”
– Anonymous
#9
“And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.”
– Geoffrey Canada
#10
“You know, if fathers just did what they’re supposed to do, half of the junk that we face in the streets wouldn’t exist.”
– Nathan Hayes
#11
“There is something absent in me, I thought. There was something empty in me that in other people was full.”
– Julie Schumacher
#12
A bad father has never a good son. “
– Latin Proverb
#13
“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”
– Robert Bly
#14
“No I will not beg or bribe anyone to be involved in my children’s lives. If you don’t come around, it sucks to be you.”
– Anonymous
#15
“The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as physical absence. When fathers are alive but not a predictable presence actively participating in their daughter’s lives the relationship becomes a permanent maybe.”
– Victoria Secunda
#16
“Dear absent father from the mother of a dadyless daughter..i just want to say ..Thank you and you are welcome!”
– Anonymous
#17
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
– Jim Valvano
#18
“It’s not a child’s job to reach out to their father; it’s a father’s job to reach out to their children.”
– Anonymous
#19
“It doesn’t matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was.”
–Anne Sexton
#20
“As your kids grow up they may forget what you said, they won’t forget how you made them feel.“
–Kevin Heath
#21
“One of the saddest things in this world, is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.“
Debbie Rowe
#22
“When you grew up with an absent father, you grew up dreaming and wanting but most of all, you grew up way too fast.“
– Anonymous
#23
“If she could put the hollow ache that haunts her words, she would tell him, ‘I miss the father you never were.’”
– John Mark Green
#24
“Fathers, take note. Children will always remember the man who treated them with love and affection. Don’t be an absent father.”
– Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
#25
“Any food can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
– Barack Obama
#26
“I decided to put as much effort into contacting you as you do with me – that’s why we don’t talk anymore.”
– Anonymous
#27
“It sucks when you know in your head that you need to let go of something, but you don’t because you still have hope in your heart that the impossible might happen.”
#28
“One of the hardest things you will ever have to do my dear, is grieving the loss of a person who is still alive.”
–Anonymous
#29
“Children feel let down and becomes hopeless when parents leave them alone.”
–Unknown
#30
Its not a child’s job to reach out to their father…. It’s a father’s job to reach out to their children.
These quotes remind us how important it is for fathers to be actively involved in their children’s lives and for society to be kind and understanding. The quotes also tell us that even when fathers are absent, people can still find strength, hope, and healing. We should learn from these quotes and try to make a world where no child has to go through life without the love and care of a father.
