“I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.” WayChildrenEndsDiesParentHostilityPlausibleParent ChildParent Child Relationship Author:Ben Marcus
“We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.” KnowsWayChildrenDoeEndsDiesParentDifficult Author:Benjamin Carson
“When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.” WholeDiesHouseParentCardsHouse Of Cards Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.” MotherDiesFatherParentSawsAffairLos AngelesSixtyFlewGreat LoveMessed Up Author:Saffron Aldridge
“When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.” WantWellsPersonsDiesParentBehindsExistenceBoysPiecesMinutesDyingColdPleaseStandingWindowScaredDinnerKitchenScareNot AfraidWetHelloCandyLitBehind YouRefrigeratorsMoodySuffocating Author:Zachary Schomburg
“One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.” ReasonDiesLeftParentAudienceTheaterShocking Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.” PastDiesParentReturnRealizationParting Book:With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
“Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.” IfsChildrenDiesParentMy OwnOkaySake Author:Byron Katie
“The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.” WorldWantLastsDiesParentStageLet Me Author:Emma Stone
“There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.” IfsThinkingChildrenStillsMatterAgeCertainDiesParentNo Matter WhatRealising Author:Rupert Graves
“I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.” ChildrenCareFormDiesParentAnswersSonOrdinaryOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenHomelessSchizophrenia Author:James D. Watson
“I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.” ThinkingLittlesBigsMightMotherDiesParentSoundTalkingDiedStartingAlbumsRevelationsShockMortalityMother Died Author:Donald Fagen
“I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."” ThinkingEndsFilmDiesThreeParentWatchesDyingMomSceneHarderDiedDown AndMy Mom Author:Garrett Hedlund