Best Empty Nest Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Consider the Lilies

“They had reached the top of a hill. Drogo turned back to look at the city against the light. Plumes of smoke were rising from roofs. He saw his own house in the distance. He identified the window of his room. It was probably open; the women were tidying up. They would strip the bed, put things away in the closet, then bolt the shutters. For months and months no one would enter, except for the patient dust and on sunny days faint streaks of light. There, shut up in darkness, would lie the little world of his boyhood. His mother would preserve it so that on his return he would find everything the same, enabling him to remain a boy in that room, even after his long absence. She was no doubt deluding herself; she believed she could preserve intact a happiness that had vanished forever, holding back the flight of time, so that when doors and windows were reopened at her son's return, things would revert to the way they were before.”

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Book:Il deserto dei Tartari

Source: Il deserto dei Tartari

“How strange is the force of imagination! it represents things as if they were actually present to us; we consider them so, and to a heart like mine, this is death. I know not where to hide myself from you.”

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Book:The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends

Source: The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends

“The gangs filled a void in society, and the void was the absence of family life. The gang became a family. For some of those guys in the gang that was the only family they knew, because when their mothers had them they were too busy having children for other men. Some of them never knew their daddies. Their daddies never look back after they got their mothers pregnant, and those guys just grew up and they couldn’t relate to nobody. When they had their problems, who could they have talked to? Nobody would listen, so they gravitated together and form a gang. George Mackey, the former representative for the historic Fox Hill community in The Bahamas.”

Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“A sacred wandering is a wilderness journey. You can find yourself in the midst of life transitions. Major upheavals. A career change. Soul searching. Infertility. Relocation. Illness. Depression. Divorce. Loss of a loved one. Unemployment. Returning to school. The empty nest.”

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Book:Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

“Motherhood is both a beautiful dance and a brutally gut-wrenching exercise in self- control. As much as we want to jump in and solve every one of our children’s problems, we must now sit on the sidelines, letting them learn to live without us. And as they begin to learn, we learn something too. We learn to pray without ceasing. And we learn God has an Act II just for us. 13 Raising children to be capable adults is one of the most amazing, agonizing, beautiful, and painful things we will ever do. We celebrate our children’s independence while mourning their departure. In fact, if we grieve their going, we most likely did it right. I had no idea of the surprises God had in store for me, and He has them for you, too.”

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Book:The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom is Not Your Only Name

Source: The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom is Not Your Only Name

“The empty nest can be one of the toughest parts of parenting. It’s a holy, hard giving-back, a sacred release of our children into God’s care and their next chapter. But you, too, have a new chapter, and you can find peace as you transition from mom to empty nest mom and rediscover that mom is not your only name. There is a second act, a future with your name on it, different from your children’s but filled with hope and surprises you cannot begin to imagine…if you plan for it, believe in it, and, with the Lord’s help, walk fearlessly into it. You are cordially invited to the After Party…because Mom is not your only name.”

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Book:The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom is Not Your Only Name

Source: The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom is Not Your Only Name

“The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.”

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Author:Kim Alexis

“When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.”

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Author:Warren Farrell

“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”

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Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress”

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Book:Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

“I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.”

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Author:Kristen Schaal

“People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.”

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Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.”

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Book:The Lazarus Project

Source: The Lazarus Project

“They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry pique, that, although our parents adored us and would do anything for us, they loved each other more. As far as I was concerned, that was the way it should be. Kids grow up, move on and find a love of their own. The empty nest shouldn't leave parents grieving. It should leave them ready and excited to get on with living their own adventure, which would, of course, include many visits to children and grandchildren.”

Source: Dreamfever: Fever Series

“The empty nest is underrated.”

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Author:Nora Ephron

“When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.”