Quotes About Absence

Desire springs from lack.

and time was empty without you to see it.

Government involvement, whether in the form of regulation, liabilities, or direct funding, isn't a panacea, but neither is its absence.

There is no evidence of the soul except in its sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking place where something was before.

There is no evidence of the soul except in tis sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking the place where something was before. A night without stars falls and for a moment covers everything in the room.

There is no evidence of the soul except in its sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking the place where something was before. A night without stars falls and for a moment covers everything in the room.

You count the names of the missing as you count off time

I sneezed and she was gone.

Gone?—gone? What means that little word?—What

Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows - a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink?

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion

Now as these two were conversing thus with each other, a dog who was lying there raised his head and ears. This was Argos, patient-hearted Odysseus' dog, whom he himself raised, but got no joy of him, since before that he went to sacred Ilion. In the days before, the young men had taken him 295 out to follow goats of the wild, and deer, and rabbits; but now he had been put aside, with his master absent

As it is, you lie mangled here, and my heart rejects all thought of food. Not that I lack it. I lack you.

If I had to pinpoint my mother's location, I'd say she's nowhere and everywhere at the same time. She's a foggy memory I can't quite bring into focus and a gentle spirit that infuses all my days. She hovers in the background of my life now, suspended, shapeless, like familiar air.

A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

You can't miss what you never had.

Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream.

They were here, and then they weren't, and that was all there was.

After Father died, she told me that it felt strange to have hands anymore, what with no one to hold them.

What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of a person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one.

complete standstill in all literary and artistic progress of any kind since Hitler because of the absence of Jews, the former leaven in the heavy German bread

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.