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Quotes About Absence

Once they are gone they will never come back Looking at pictures and remembering the good times wont help like people say nothing will bring them back
~ julia knight
it was easy to forget about someone one never saw.
~ Julia Quinn
Je peux supporter votre haine, dit-il à la porte close, mais certainement pas votre absence.
~ Julia Quinn
je peux supporter votre haine… mais certainement pas votre absence.
~ Julia Quinn
And then they left, and all was quiet, but it wasn't peaceful. Just empty.
~ Julia Quinn
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.
~ Pavel Durov
It is where we do not live that the dying comes.
~ Eve Ensler
Absences can also make one forget. Absence dulls the memory and banishes those who are precious from the mind.
~ F. Sionil Jose
I feel so alone," she said. "You don't realize how much space someone takes up until they're gone and there's too much emptiness. This place never echoed before. Now it does." She was mystified.
~ Faith Sullivan
And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind: Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck. Yours truly, Earl Adcock P.S. I'm not deaf.
~ Fannie Flagg
My heart still full of her, Traveled over her face, and found her there no more... I thought to myself that a women unknown Had adopted by chance that voice and those eyes And I let the chilly statue pass Looking at the skies. Alfredde Musset
~ Fari Amini
El ser humano y la muerte nunca llegan a conocerse. Nadie asiste a su propio funeral.
~ Federico Andahazi
I went away from your side, in love without knowing it. Now I don't know how your eyes look, nor your hands, nor your hair. I know only the butterfly of your kiss on my forehead.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Para ver que todo se ha ido dame to mudo hueco, ¡amor mío! Nostalgia de academia y cielo triste. ¡Para ver que todo se ha ido!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
There were some smart young boys and girls there, and they grew used to my peripatetic absences. In the interim, they would 'delegate' the work to themselves and often keep those responsibilities when I returned. Yes, I think that was how it happened. It
~ Felix Dennis
I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.
~ Fiona Wood
In fact, it is not justice which has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence of the other.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Comment se faisait-il que je ne l'aie jamais rencontrée? À quoi me servait-il de connaître tant de monde si cette fille n'en faisait pas partie? Il faisait froid sur le parvis
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Certes, il avait été fou de croire qu'une jeune femme pût avoir le goût sensible de sa présence. Fou ! fou ! mais quel raisonnement nous préserverait de cette insupportable douleur, lorsque l'être adoré dont l'approche est nécessaire à notre vie même physique, se résigne d'un coeur indifférent (satisfait peut-être) à notre absence éternelle ? Nous ne sommes rien pour celle qui nous est tout.
~ Francois Mauriac
Elle éprouvait une paix qui peut-être était de la déception. Elle ignorait qu'elle ne serait pas toujours secourue ; non, les morts ne secourent pas les vivants : nous les avons invoqués en vain au bord de l'abîme ; leur silence, leur absence ressemblaient à une complicité.
~ Francois Mauriac
Maria Cross ! Maria ! douleur, douleur de ne l'avoir pas vue — mais surtout quel signe qu'elle n'ait pas même songé à m'avertir ! Il faut que je compte bien peu dans sa vie ; elle renonce à me voir sans même y arrêter sa pensée... Je mets l'infini dans des minutes qui ne sont rien pour elle... »
~ Francois Mauriac
I did not see your mother at the funeral,' she said, following the thought. 'She stopped coming to them after her own,' Paul answered simply.
~ Frances Hardinge
How does it feel, whispered Faith, to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place?
~ Frances Hardinge