Maurice Sendak Quotes

My wife was an excellent mother, her loss has left a big void in my son's life, and those are shoes that I cannot fill. The loss of a parent has not been easy on him.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

I had no father. I had no mother after I was 8.

Growing up without my parents by my side is a weight I still carry today.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

I have a brother and we lost our father when I was 15. And that was a big emotional upheaval in my life.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

There's never been a parent in my life.

After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

I was only a young girl of 13 when my father passed away from a sudden heart attack, leaving us unprepared to take on life without him. We had been protected from life's challenges so far. But without warning, all that changed overnight.

My father passed away when I was pretty young. I was 7 years old, and I think when that happens, there are a variety of ways that a young person can react to that loss. I think, for me, it kind of put me in a perpetual state of feeling like something is wrong with me and like I didn't belong, or everybody else had things that I didn't have.