Fatherly Absence Quotes

I come from a home where my mother was the only emotional umbrella under which we found all the warmth and comforts and sustenance. My father would come and go, and not as often as we'd want him to.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

My father was driven, active and always busy. We didn't see that much of him, although he never went far away or stayed overnight anywhere.