Quotes About Absence

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.

Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.

Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. "Just watch me," he said.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?

When at last he reached home, eleven and a half years after setting off, and having achieved nothing, he discovered that his relatives had had him declared dead in his absence and had enthusiastically plundered his estate.

There is actually a certain value in not finding anything,' he said. 'It helps cosmologists to work out the rate at which galaxies are evolving. It's one of those rare areas where the absence of evidence is evidence.

transits of Venus, as they are known, are an irregular occurrence. They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more

and all children everywhere go through a phase in which they become oddly fascinated with the idea of "gone" and "all gone.

They intended to use America's absence from the world scene to overthrow the Saudi king, expropriate the wealth of his branch of the royal family and its supporters, reconcile with Iran and Syria, and establish a modern technocratic caliphate using science and technology to raise the standing of the Muslim world to heights not seen in a thousand years.

The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.

The worst form of stress is an absence of stress, because the feeling that there is no life before death gives rise to a despairing feeling of emptiness in the face of the void.

I have to be absent for a while. Do not wait for me.—D.

I am not home. I am here.

I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things.

Por haber vivido tanto tiempo y haber dejado a mi espalda tantas personas, a estas alturas sé que los muertos pesan, no tanto por la ausencia, como por todo aquello que entre ellos y nosotros no ha sido dicho.

Da ich lange gelebt habe und von vielen Menschen zurückgelassen wurde, weiß ich unterdessen, daß die Toten einen nicht durch ihre Abwesenheit belasten, sondern durch das, was - zwischen ihnen und uns - nicht ausgesprochen wurde.