Quotes About Absence

What, without you is life eternal? what are my boundless realms infernal? Just empty words, a loud discord, a vast cathedral - with no lord!

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more

We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing. ..... For four long books of the Odyssey he had retraced in detail his adventures before the dazzled Phaeacians. But in Ithaca he was not a stranger, he was one of their own, so it never occurred to anyone to say, 'Tell us!

A scarf from her dress works free and floats behind her the way memories float behind the dead.

Con ello no quiero decir que haya dejado de amarla, que la haya olvidado, que su recuero haya empalidecido; al contrario; permanece dentro de mí constantemente como una callada nostalgia; la anhelo como se anhela algo que se ha perdido definitivamente.

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Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of earth abd his earthy being, and become half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.

Soledad: dulce ausencia de miradas

L'assenza assoluta di un fardello fa sì che l'uomo diventi più leggero dell'aria, prenda il volo verso l'alto, si allontani dalla terra, dall'essere terreno, diventi solo a metà reale e i suoi movimenti siano tanto liberi quanto privi di significato.

La ausencia absoluta de carga hace que el hombre se vuelva más ligero que el aire, vuele hacia lo alto, se distancie de la tierra, de su ser terreno, que sea real sólo a medias y sus movimientos sean tan libres como insignificantes.

And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the cate-gory of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it's own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.

What's wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you're not beside me.