non-religious sympathy quote for someone who lost her father?

Question

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me. My grandpa passed away in January, and his birthday is at the end of April. He and my mom were very close-I think he was the only person she could relate to in our family. I am making a memorial thing about him in a photo frame to give to my mom on his birthday. I really would like a poem or quote, maybe something about fatherhood, to go on it.

No offense, but I'm not looking for bible verses or quotes referring to God. I respect your religion, it just doesn't fit with my family dynamics. Please show the same respect for my beliefs.

I appreciate your help.

Thanks so much! I've seen lots of great quotes so far both here and on the websites you've referred me to.

I haven't decided yet, so if anyone else has suggestions or other resources i should check out, please give your 2 cents!

Answer 1

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
- Anne Sexton

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
- Clarence B. Kelland

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
- Jim Valvano

"My father died many years ago,
and yet when something special happens to me,
I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears,
but it makes me feel better to half believe it."
- Natasha Josefowitz

To her the name of father was another name for love.
- Fanny Fern

Check out the website below for more quotations and poems

Answer 2

ok, I have a book here"A father's words of wisdom" maybe one of these will be encouraging and you can fit it into a sympathy note to help her remember the good times and things he may have said to her?

"Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once." Lillian Dickson (remembering all the times "dad" was there for her)

"Laughter adds richness, texture, and color to othewise ordinary days" Tim Hansel (remembering his jokes or witty personality)

"There are no impossible dreams--just our limited perception of what is possible" Beth Mende Conny ((even tho he's gone the love she knew should be the reason to continue on and succeed in life and try her best at school, work, life)

"There is something ultimate in a father's Love. Something that cannot fail, something to be believed against the whole world. " Frederick W. Faber


"My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. he dominated my life as long as he lived, and was the love of my life for many years after he died". Eleanor Roosevelt (remember those good old childhood days?)

"Time, not money, is the real currency of our lives" R. Tripplett
(was he a take time to be with her kind of dad? take her places, be at her special events to support her?)

If none of these work for you, then maybe all you need to do is take it from your heart. Example: "Smile mom and remember the good times you shared with him whenever you are sad."

Answer 3

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~ Anonymous

To her the name of father was another name for love.
~ Fanny Fern

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
~ Kent Nerburn

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
~ Anne Sexton

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
Ruth E. Renkel

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person... he believed in me."
Jim Valvano

Family isn't just about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
anon.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott,

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Good luck, hun... this is a wonderful thing you're doing for your mom.

Answer 4

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
~Thomas Campbell, "Hallowed Ground"

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
~Rossiter Worthington Raymond

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. ~Kahlil Gibran

He kept at true good humour's mark
The social flow of pleasure's tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
~Thomas Love Peacock

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more, and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. ~Emily Dickinson

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~Author Unknown

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn

Answer 5

"Your days are short right here; it is the final of your springs. And now interior the serenity and quiet of this beautiful place, touch the depths of actuality, experience the hem of Heaven. you will go away with previous, stable acquaintances. and do not forget once you go away why you got here." Adlai E. Stevenson