Quotes About Absence

When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'

In my entire life I've spent maybe three weeks with my dad under the same roof.

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

At first, not having Mina with us made us all feel lonely, and there was an emptiness without her. However, Mina is trying her best to participate, so even when she's not with us in person, she's still always with us in spirit.

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

And now he was dead. She didn't know how, or what had killed him, just that his body had ceased to exist.

However, within the Bible we find a much more radical view of the eschatological kingdom, not as the absence of something that is to come, but rather as the absence of a kingdom that is already here.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

God isn't dead--he's just missing in action.

Ali sada brzam. Pri?e imaju po?etak, trebale bi ?ak imati i sredinu, ali nikad nisam siguran imaju li pri?e kao što je ova doista i kraj; barem ga ne?e biti dok se god osje?am ovako zbog žene koju nisam Vidio, niti dodirnuo, niti govorio s njom ve? tisu?u godina.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

Without the war, without this magnificent summer, this absence of men, would we ever have met?

Dans le spectacle de son absence, c'est sa présence que je reconnais.

Il le veilla toute la nuit plus qu'il ne le surveilla. Il n'était plus à surveiller. Il n'était plus rien.

When you're there, I sleep lengthwise. And when you're gone, I sleep diagonal in my bed.

most girls and boys continue to experience childhood in father-dominated, father-absent, and/or mother-blaming families.

Si tu as pour moi un peu d'affection, cela me suffit / Car rien n'est plus fort que ce qui est vrai ; / Mais le soir est tombé et je suis terrifié de ne pas te voir. [95]

Vorrebbe non tornare mai più dal suo viaggio, perdersi su un binario morto e scomparire senza lasciarsi dietro nessuna traccia.

Cette stupeur va durer quelques secondes, pendant lesquelles tout le monde va quitter la vie, s'absenter, perdre le fil de l'existence.

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.