100 Absent Father Quotes That Will Touch Your Heart

Having an absent father can be one of the most difficult things a person can experience in life. If you are lucky, you have a mother who has been there for you every step of the way. But what if your father is absent? This doesn’t mean that he doesn’t love you, it just means that he is not capable of being in your life for whatever reason. Whether he is incarcerated, addicted to ***** or alcohol, or simply doesn’t care about you, his absence will leave a hole in your heart that can never be filled. In this blog post, we will share with you some beautiful quotes about absent fathers that will touch your heart.

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Absent Father Quotes

1. “Real dads are supportive ” – Unknown
2. “Hey dad I did it without you.” – Unknown
3. “Father’s Day is so hard for me.” – Unknown
4. “ It takes someone special to be a dad.” – Unknown
5. “A bad father has never a good son.” – Latin Proverb
6. “Every woman is a princess to her father ” – Unknown
7. “A true Mother holds her child’s hearts forever” – Unknown
8. “A father must be responsible towards his child.” – Unknown
9. “You cannot expect a good son from a bad father .”- Unknown
10. “ I can proudly say that I did it without you, dad.” – Unknown
11. “ My dad left me one day without even saying goodbye.” – Unknown
12. “When your father is not present, believe in yourself. “- Unknown
13. “A letter to the father who don’t know how awesome I am.” – Unknown
14. “As old as she was..She still missed her daddy sometimes.” – Unknown
15. “ A real father is the one who raises his children well.” – Unknown
16. “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” – William Shakespeare
17. “It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”- Kent Nerburn
18. “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” – William Shakespeare
19. “A father is the most special person in a daughter’s life .” – Unknown
20. “Nothing is as strong as the need for a father’s protection” – Unknown
21. “When your father is absent, you have to believe in yourself.” – Unknown
22. “Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad.” – Unknown
23. “A daughter needs her father more than anything else in the world.” – Unknown
24. “Even though she is old enough she still missed her daddy sometimes.” – Unknown
25. “By ignoring her, you are actually teaching her to live without you.” – Unknown
26. “ Before any man had had the chance to break my heart, my father did ” – Unknown
27. “Your presence doesn’t matter if your absence doesn’t have any impact.“- Unknown
28. “A dad should be a daughter’s idol against which she will judge all men.” – Unknown
29. “I don’t want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?” – Indira Varma
30. “An absent father needs to realize his child’s needs before it is too late.” – Unknown
31. “ Children feel let down and becomes hopeless when parents leave them alone.” -Unknown
32. “An absent father needs to realize his child’s needs before it is very late ” – Unknown
33. “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” – Benjamin Franklin
34. “Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.”- George W. Bush
35. “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.”- Benjamin Franklin
36. “Some kids are able to become independent without the presence of their father.” – Unknown
37. “It’s a sin if you are a father, but are not around to support your children . “- Unknown
38. “ Before it’s too late, an absent father should realize the needs of his child” – Unknown
39. “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” – Benjamin Franklin
40. “If a man cannot be a father to his own child, there is nothing worse than that.” – Unknown
41. “You make sacrifices for your children so they can enjoy the life they deserve.” – Unknown
42. “Just remember when you are ignoring her, you are teaching her to live without you.” – Unknown
43. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
44. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”- Barbara Johnson
45. “A father may turn his back on his child, but a mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving
46. “He was supposed to be the first male love of your life you still search for him everywhere.” – Unknown
47. “A father may turn his back on his child, but a mother’s love endures through all.”- Washington Irving
48. “Respect to all moms doing double duty because of men failing to do their part as dad.” – John Mark Green
49. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
50. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
51. “One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn’t completed being a boy”- Iyanla Vanzant
52. “I remember when I was the twinkle in my daddy’s eyes. Then he left one day without saying good bye.” – Unknown
53. “There should be an anti father’s day. A bad dad’s day. that way I could truly say “you are the best.” – Unknown
54. “Because my father was absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do as much as I pleased.”- John James Audubon
55. “If your children are important to you, you will always find a way. If not, you’ll always find an excuse.” – Unknown
56. “There’s nothing worse than a man that can be everything to everybody else.Except a father to their own child.” – Unknown
57. “Only twenty two percent of fathers who don’t live in the same house as their children are “actively” involved.” – Unknown
58. “Dear absent father from the mother of a dadyless daughter..i just want to say ..Thank you and you are welcome!” – Unknown
59. “I look for you everywhere I go hoping to bump into you but I never see you you’re not there you’re never there.” – Unknown
60. “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman, he turns her back again.” – Enid Bagnold
61. “Don’t forgive him. Forgive yourself for believing there is something lacking in you because he wasn’t there.” – Iyanla Vanzant
62. “When you grew up with an absent father, you grew up dreaming and wanting.. But most of all, you grew up way too fast.” – Unknown
63. “Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.”- Jhumpa Lahiri
64. “I realize that taking extra effort in contacting my father means nothing to him – that’s the reason we stopped talking.” – Unknown
65. “No matter how old you get. The hole in your heart created by your father’s absence still aches.Especially on father’s day.” – Unknown
66. “When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”- Robert Bly
67. “Fathers, you are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.”- Anita R. Sneed-Carter
68. “Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.” – Anita R. Sneed-Carter
69. “One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.” – Unknown
70. “There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
71. “Father take note! Children will always remember the man who treated them with love and affection! Don’t be an absent father!” – Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
72. “To feel that you aren’t important to your mother leaves a hole. Most often it is felt as a hole in the heart. It’s the hole where Mother was supposed to be.”- Jasmin Lee Cori
73. “Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.” – Geoffrey Canada
74. “There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn’t describe me. There was something empty in me that in other people was full.” – Julie Schumacher
75. “My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.” – jim Hamilton
76. “Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children’s feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.” – Eileen Simpson
77. “Your mother is in the habit of offering more love than you can carry. Your father is absent. You are a war the border between two countries the collateral damage the paradox that joins the two but also splits them apart.” -Rupi Kaur
78. “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” – Abraham Lincoln
79. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
80. “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” – Frank A. Clark
81. “A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” – Unknown
82. “The greatest gift I ever had, came from God; I call him Dad!” – Anonymous
83. “To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” – Euripides
84. “My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'” – Michael Jordan
85. “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” – William Shakespeare
86. “My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.” – Liza Minnelli
87. “Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.” – Wayne Rooney
88. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
89. “My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.” – Ronaldinho
90. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert
91. “A real man doesn’t need to tell you how strong he is. He shows you.” – Unknown
92. “A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.” – Suzanne Ward
93. “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” – Linda Poindexter
94. “A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” – Billy Graham
95. “A father is a guy who has photos in his wallet where his money used to be.” – Unknown
96. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
97. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert
98. “A real man doesn’t need to tell you how strong he is. He shows you.” – Unknown
99. “A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.” – Suzanne Ward
100. “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” – Linda Poindexter

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Wrapping Up

We hope you enjoyed reading these absent father quotes. While it can be difficult growing up without a father figure, it’s important to remember that you’re not alone. There are many people in the world who have gone through the same thing and come out stronger for it. If you’re struggling with the absence of your father, we hope these quotes provide some comfort. And if you have a father in your life, be sure to let him know how much you appreciate him!