Quotes About Absence

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

The strange white world lay stroked by silence. No birds sang. The garden was no longer there, in this forested land. Nor were the out-buildings nor the old crumbling walls. There lay only a narrow clearing round the house now, hummocked with unbroken snowdrifts, before the trees began, with a narrow path leading away.

Sometimes you need a friend really badly, but everyone's gone away for the day.

Barry was gone in a flurry of papers blown off tabletops.

My father was right: people are always leaving. They fall in and out of your life like shadows.

This building was full of what it was missing.

This building was full of what it was missing. It was if the people who passed thorough had left a small indent in the air.

S? v?ng m?t c?a cô bé hoá ra càng khi?n s? hi?n di?n c?a cô càng l?n h?n trong Ernest, nh? m?t cái h? mà ng??i ta ph?i ?i vòng ?? không b? ngã, song ng??i ta ngh? t?i cái h? ?ó nhi?u t?i m?c ng??i ta v?n b? ngã xu?ng ?ó

She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail,

When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it." "Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted a day off, more likely," I say. "I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle,'" says Plutarch.

The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.

I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

I think she is relieved by Haymitch's absence, and who can blame her?

Si es mor, mai no acabaré de tornar a casa, realment.

Haymitch isn't among our company. When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldn't face it." "Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted a day off, more likely," I say. "I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle,' " says Plutarch.