Quotes About Absence

Me gustaría mucho que vinieras, ya que, aunque seas huraño, formas parte de mi paisaje cotidiano. Me he acostumbrado a encontrarte cada mañana en tu pupitre, dormido o haciendo garabatos sobre tu cuaderno negro. Si un día dejaras de venir, al universo le faltaría algo. [pp. 126]

Quienes se van sin despedirse nunca se van del todo.

It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man's refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.

Is it too late for mainstream America? I wonder. As long as we are convinced that our problems are due to an abundance of wickedness that we must combat, we are in serious trouble. We need to learn to turn over the problem of the wicked to God and focus on remedying the tragic absence of good. In the absence of good, all efforts to combat evil are doomed to failure.

We need to learn to turn over the problem of the wicked to God and focus on remedying the tragic absence of good. In the absence of good, all efforts to combat evil are doomed to failure.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

a girl who's talked about has a weakness that's often a fatal one." "What is it?" "It's this: when she's talked about she isn't there.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Home never appears to us so beautiful as when we are remote from it.

The dead are always available to us, just not how we'd prefer.

Amazon tried to combat employee delinquency by using a point system to track how workers performed their jobs. Arriving late cost an employee half a point; failing to show up altogether was three points. Even calling in sick cost a point. An employee who collected six such demerits was let go.

First there was light, and then there was no-light. First there was heat, and then there was no-heat. And - First there was love, and then there was no-love. But in its place did not come the absence of love, the emptiness that the going of light and heat had left. Another moved in to take its place. In its place came hate.

When, finally, I go into the office, I experience that weirdness I always get when I've been away any length of time. Weirded out by the normality. The way life without me seems to have been much the same as life with me, only presumably more peaceful and with slightly worse grammar.

The first and most obvious difference would be the absence of Iceland, for these volcanic islands mark the place where the meteor struck and penetrated to the mantle below.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

You said you're going far away, Tamaru said. How far away are we talking about? It's a distance that can't be measured. Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.

Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had disappeared.

Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening to Duran Duran. Stars? Who remembers stars? Come to think of it, had I even looked up at the sky recently? Had the stars been wiped out of the sky three months ago, I wouldn't have known.