A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.