Lena Headey Quotes

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.

I feel bad for my parents for having to raise me. I was crazy.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.

The moment you have children, it's like your heart gets out of your body, puts on clothes, and walks away.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.