Quotes About Absence

Sometimes something vanishes, and afterwards you can't stop looking at the place where it used to be.

Draped across an armchair lay his famous long black coat, empty now, and hollow with missing him.

Life is a dinner party without a host. And, frequently, without a dinner party either.

I miss you always when I go to the beach the sand is wet with tears that seem mine although I never weep and hold you in my heart with a very real humor you'd be proud of

Dear: I am dying without you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come. Best always, Frank

if there is a place further from me I beg you do not go Frank O'Hara, from "Morning Poem," The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara . (University of California Press March 31, 1995)

Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

it's hard to fool an ape. One reason for that is the absence of distraction by the spoken word. We attach such importance to verbal communication that we lose track of what our bodies say about us.

We are so logic-driven that we can't stand the absence of it.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

of his companions pointed out the absence of black bars in the battery window and explained about charging. Then Abdelahi saw the spare phone lying on the Egyptian's

It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.

Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority. Zen tears away every false refuge in which you might hide from the truth and forces you to sit naked before what is real. That's real refuge.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

and before you, I never really knew what lonely was. I can't go a day without feeling like I'm missing something. Truth is, I am missing something. I'm missing you..

Without the glowing fruit, the place was as black as the inside of a can of black paint that had also been painted black.

At the heart of loneliness is the absence of meaningful social interaction—an intimate relationship, friendships, family gatherings, or even community or work group connections.

Grilled peaches on shortbread with raspberries and black pepper ice cream. We're all out, said the communicative waiter. That was twelve years ago.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.