Quotes About Absence

I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

Per un attimo, pensai che l'unico vero fantasma è l'assenza causata dalla perdita di chi si ama e mi assalì un senso di precarietà, come se anche la luce limpida di quel mattino fosse un'illusione e potesse svanire da un momento all'altro.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never would be.

and that the bridegroom had never made it to the church.

Conjurei em vão as palavras que queria oferecer a Nuria Monfort,mas fui incapaz de escrever ou de sentir fosse o que fosse,excepto aquele terror inexplicável da sua ausência,de a saber perdida,arrancada pela raiz.Soube que um dia voltaria para mim,meses ou anos mais tarde,que havia de trazer sempre a sua recordação no contacto de um estranho,de imagens que não me pertenciam,sem saber se era digno de tudo isso.Vais-te em sombras,pensei.Como viveste.

Contei-lhe que até àquele momento não tinha compreendido que aquela era uma história de gente só,de ausências e de perda,e que por essa razão me tinha refugiado nela até a confundir com a minha própria vida,como quem escapa através das páginas de um romance porque aqueles que precisa de amar são apenas sombras que vivem na alma de um estranho.

No podía oír su voz o sentir su tacto, pero su luz y su calor ardían en cada rincón de aquella casa.

Every afternoon, when we parted, I walked back home dreaming about the moment when I would rescue her from that existence marked by absences, from that night visitor who scared her, from that pampered life that stole the light from her with every passing day. Every afternoon I told myself that I wasn't going to forget her and that, so long as I remembered her, I'd be able to save her.

there were no more ghosts there than those of absence and loss

El plan, o la ausencia de uno...

It wasn't that she stopped being nice; she stopped being anything

We don't know what to do about Eve. She hasn't called and isn't here." Janie could not worry about Eve, who would do the best she could.

Where are you? In the barn wrapped up in a quilt with an old pregnant cow that won't get on the ball and deliver her calf. Jack was wrong when he thought she'd calve tonight. Every song that played all day on the radio reminded me of you, Red. I miss you so bad.

The room was empty without him. No, the

Even in his absence, Tate had managed to remind her of his concern and caring. With determination, she set aside the unease that had plagued her this day.

It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her.

Or maybe there was no one there at all and you'd gone out so no matter how hard I shouted there was no one there.

The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.

Only Gracie knew what it was like to wake up at night and feel how cold sheets can get on the empty side of a bed.

I missed her, the idea of her.

Tata coboar? m?suÈ›a, scoate fotografia mamei din buzunar, o aÈ™eaz? pe mas?, cu faÈ›a la fereastr?. ÎÈ™i las? scaunul pe spate È™i privesc amândoi marea nesfârÈ™it? de noriÈ™ori albi care dispar sub noi, f?r? s? mai scoat? un cuvânt tot restul zborului.

También le contaré cuanto me molesta que me digan que el tiempo lo cura todo aunque la ausencia hace que aumente el cariño, lo cual confunde, porque significa que cuanto más tiempo pase de que se fue mas voy a quererle.

I drew that memory of my father on the roof...I drew him in all the small and quiet ways I had never thought to draw him before. And it seemed to me that I was closer to him during those early months of his absence than at any other time of my life.