Quotes About Absence

no amount of money in the world can make up for parental absence. It's one of life's harshest realities.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

Sometimes a disappearance can be more haunting than an apparition.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

I had no relationship with my father. He was never around. I met him when I was a sophomore in college. I wanted to meet him that once. I asked why he wasn't there for us. He said, 'I had other obligations.'

Dad was, is, and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I've ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful, and less full of laughter in his absence.

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

She died without us by her side, and now, we are left with the scars. In time, they will fade, but their haunting memory will remain.

Love people, not places. Places don't miss you when you're gone.

I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body.This grief. How slowThe body is to realizeYou are never coming back.

Symphony of the airmy ear can hearmy only companiona rocking chairsilence is masterwishing you were here.

once you're gone, you made me feel nothing as if you were my emotions and you took it away from me.

She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.

Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared.

you can't have her. though you know she loves youand you would not be far from her . will be always empty without her at your side

It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone

I miss you a lot. But what I miss even more is the person I become when I am with you. She is beautiful.

There is a hole in the heart called "absence". You live in it my dear.

…love is by definition freeand if he choose to gowhen I would have him stayperhaps I'll die a bitbut I'd rather sothan taste his absent minded kissand lie uneasy in a masked embrace

Please let me know if I am not hereLet me know if I fail to find you thereFor before the dawn I leave the night behind meAnd before my heart I let you leave me behind.

The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell.His absence wasn't a problemBut the corkscrew had gone as well.

Your memory straddles my mind.

Seconds feel like centuries when I am not in your presence.