Quotes About Absence

La última vez que salí al aire libre fue hace tres años.

If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias.

Take note: If little by little you stop loving me, I'll stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me Don't come looking for me, I'll already have forgotten you. —PABLO NERUDA "If you forget me" THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES

She tried to understand what it meant to carry winter on your back, to hesitate over every step, to confuse words you don't hear properly, to have the impression that the rest of the world is going about in a great rush; the emptiness, frailty, fatigue, and indifference toward everything not directly related to you, even children and grandchildren, whose absence was not felt as it once had been, and whose names you had to struggle to remember.

quería estirar las manos a través de la mesa y tocarlo, acercarse, hundir la nariz en su cuello y comprobar que todavía olía a tierra y hierbas, decirle que sin él vivía sonámbula, que nada ni nadie podía llenar el vacío terrible de su ausencia, que daría todo por volver a estar desnuda en sus brazos, nada importaba sino él.

me venga a ver, no ha venido desde

sólo quedaban sobre la cama dos criaturas desvalidas, con la memoria ausente, flotando en el vacío terrible de tantas palabras calladas.

Lucía comprendió que la muerte no era un final, no era ausencia de vida, sino una poderosa ola oceánica, agua fresca y luminosa, que se la llevaba a otra dimensión.

As Hannah Arendt has observed, "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper as your fly is being pulled up so that you know it actually is up. The sound of the door as it closes, to know that it's really shut.

When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

The absent are always wrong.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?

God seems to have the receiver off the hook.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.