Quotes About Absence

Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

It's like an ache, how much I miss them. How much I miss her. I'm so tired of missing things I don't have

HAPPY BIRTHDAY" PREPARE FOR LANDING, TRACK 4 Another day, another year To light the candles, without you here

The Fourth Ideal is Psychological Safety, where we make it safe to talk about problems, because solving problems requires prevention, which requires honesty, and honesty requires the absence of fear.

Pete were here, he'd whistle.

Everyone was nowhere to be seen

Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

You taught me the meaning of loneliness, because when I don't see you, I feel alone. You

For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person, and angry because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away.

How does this even happen? How can someone you love be there one second and then gone the next?

Un soldato nemico non era mai solo - un essere umano di fronte a un altro - ma portava con sé una folla innumerevole di fantasmi, i fantasmi degli assenti e dei morti. Non ci si rivolgeva a un uomo ma a una moltitudine invisibile; così nessuna delle parole pronunciate era detta semplicemente e come tale ascoltata; si aveva sempre la strana sensazione che a parlare fosse soltanto una bocca, che parlava per tante altre, mute.

Forgive me for not being able to be with you.

I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.

I must think of him as vanished utterly and gone forever.

The only cure here was death. They were both gone out of my life.

I'm afraid I don't know their address, but there it is, when people are gone they're gone, isn't it.

The absence of the loved person is so absolute.

Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you've been away. It's as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it.

It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.

I prefer Tender Is the Night, though', and as I spoke, I got a raw jolt in my chest that could only br described as tender, as an image of Fiona, on the Bosphorus ferry, under a lambent soak of light, sweeping her hair out of her face, flickered in my brain. Even wasted she looked so poised and dignified. I loved her I loved her I loved her I wanted to melt into her bones. Her absence now felt like I'd been eaten from the inside.

A powerful rage gripped us, seemingly coming fae nowhere. No, not fae nowhere. Strong emotions ay this type can only be generated by junk or the possibility of its absence. — What the fuck's this shite?

There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain.

He felt that dull, heart-choking pain that feeds on itself, the pain of a wife no longer by his side at waking, of a familiar world lost…